Smita Rai

ORCID: 0000-0003-2547-001X
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  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
  • Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
  • Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
  • Psidium guajava Extracts and Applications
  • Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
  • Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Fullerene Chemistry and Applications
  • Vanadium and Halogenation Chemistry
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Seed Germination and Physiology
  • Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants
  • Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
  • Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

Integral University
2020-2024

Sikkim University
2019-2024

Jain University
2024

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2008

Indian Institute of Technology Indore
2007-2008

The agricultural sector is an important part of the Indian economy. challenged by various stresses, leading to huge loss in crop productivity globally and disturbs sustainability. Abiotic stresses (drought salinity) are among foremost ecological factors that hinder globally. Several generate excess amounts reactive oxygen species (ROS) either singly or combination, impaired redox homeostasis, causing oxidative stress thereby affecting physiology plant. It further damages yields, other...

10.1016/j.stress.2022.100073 article EN cc-by Plant Stress 2022-03-07

Due to climate change, salinity has become a limiting factor for many leguminous crops. Therefore, we have explored the comparative study of salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) promotion growth. These PGPR (Bacillus subtilis RhStr_71, Bacillus safensis RhStr_223, and cereus RhStr_JH5) were in vitro screened (PGP) traits such as IAA, P-solubilization, siderophore, ammonia production. They further selected evaluate maximum NaCl tolerant level (MTL). Selected PGP bacteria...

10.33263/briac115.1314113154 article EN Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 2021-02-07

Salinity-induced ethylene production and reactive oxygen species (ROS) inhibit agricultural productivity. The plant synthesizes directly from aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC). By using ACC as a nitrogen source, bacteria with deaminase (ACCD) the overproduction of ethylene, thereby maintaining ROS. present study investigated ACCD activity previously identified rhizobacterial strains in Dworkin Foster (DF) minimal salt media supplemented 5 mM (as N-source). Bacterial isolates GKP...

10.3390/plants11243419 article EN cc-by Plants 2022-12-07

We consider a water molecule under tight confinement in the small‐sized fullerenes (C28, C30, C32) within density functional theory (DFT) calculations with suitable exchange‐correlation functionals. Such nanoscopic molecular cages provide an ideal setup to study their characteristic properties not present condensed phase. The entirely loses its feature of typical when it is confined small size equal C30 or smaller, which asymmetric O‐H stretching vibration occurs at lower wavenumber than...

10.1002/cphc.202400718 article EN ChemPhysChem 2024-09-17

Nanoparticles (NPs) exhibit fascinating size‐dependent chemical and physical characteristics that make them useful for a variety of applications. The present paper reports the green synthesis CuO NPs B‐doped (B‐CuO NPs) from Livistona chinensis leaf extract. Not much work has been reported on use plant extract fabrication NPs, particularly those Cu its doped counterparts. Various spectroscopic techniques were used to characterize synthesized NPs. In FT‐IR spectra, peaks obtained at 504 cm‐1...

10.1002/cbdv.202401596 article EN Chemistry & Biodiversity 2024-09-27

The tetrafunctionalized AB3-type porphyrin building blocks containing two different types of functional groups with N4, N3O, N3S, and N2S2 cores were synthesized by following various synthetic routes. N4 block was a mixed condensation approach, the N3S N3O mono-ol method, an unsymmetrical diol method. used to synthesize monofunctionalized tetrads subunits coupling 1 equiv 3 ZnN4 under mild copper-free Pd(0) conditions. further pentads three tetrad same NMR, absorption, electrochemical...

10.1021/jo801455w article EN The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2008-10-02

Food-borne diseases (FBD) can cause serious health hazards. Day by day, these pathogens are becoming resistant to various antibiotics. Consequently, severe outbreaks of (multidrug resistance food-borne diseases) MDR-FBD possible. About this, there is an urgent requirement explore new antimicrobial compounds. As Psidium guajava L. has been in folkloric use treat many diseases, this study, the phytochemical profile two North- Indian cultivars (c.v) Lalit (Pink) and Shweta (White) was...

10.33263/briac116.1409014102 article EN Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry 2021-03-06

Biofertilizers are a novel technique for Indian agriculture that has the potential to address many of shortcomings chemical-based technology. Plant growth-promoting (PGP) traits such as IAA, P-solubilization, ACC deaminase, NH3, HCN, EPS, siderophore synthesis, and biofilm formation have been demonstrated in two salt-tolerant PGPR, BST YS1 42 (Bacillus cereus) CHR JH203 marisflavi). They most commonly utilized make carrier-based compositions. This study aimed evaluate how different...

10.33263/lianbs123.065 article EN Letters in Applied NanoBioScience 2022-04-15

Cis-21,23-dithiaporphyrin building block containing one iodophenyl and pyridyl functional group at meso positions was synthesized by condensing unsymmetrical thiophene diol symmetrical 16-thiatripyrrin under refluxing propionic acid conditions. The 21,23-dithiaporphyrin coupled with mono-functionalized 21-thiaporphyrin meso-phenylethyne mild Pd (0) coupling steady-state time-resolved fluorescence studies support an efficient energy transfer in the singlet excited state from N 3 S porphyrin...

10.1142/s1088424608000406 article EN Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2008-09-01

We study the structural, energetic and electronic properties of structured water chain clusters within density functional theory. refer chains to those that have specific geometric patterns stretched along one direction. External electric field required keep structures open chain, thereby preventing them form closed structures, is applied length chain. The are essentially periodic with basic repeating unit consisting corner- or edge-sharing 4-, 5- 6-membered ring clusters. Our calculations...

10.1080/00268976.2019.1662957 article EN Molecular Physics 2019-09-10
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