Table 1.

Fields of aquaphotomics applications.

Application	References
Fundamental biochemical studies of water solutions	Sugars (Bázár et al., 2015; Cui et al., 2017a), proteins (Tsenkova et al., 2004; Chatani et al., 2014), DNA (Goto et al., 2015), salts (Gowen et al., 2013, 2015), alkali-metal halides (Kojić et al., 2014), acids (Omar et al., 2012), and metal ions (Sakudo et al., 2006b; Tsenkova et al., 2007a; Putra et al., 2010)
Water quality	Water filtration process (Cattaneo et al., 2011), detection and quantification of pesticides (Gowen et al., 2011), discrimination of mineral waters (Munćan et al., 2014), detection of contaminants (Gowen et al., 2015), and holistic water monitoring (Kovacs et al., 2016)
Food quality	Various foodstuff (Gowen, 2012), cheese (Atanassova, 2015), honey (Bázár et al., 2016), mushrooms (Gowen et al., 2009a), bacteria in food (Nakakimura et al., 2012), milk (Tsenkova, 1994; Tsenkova et al., 2001a,b), and food packaging influence (Cattaneo et al., 2016; Barzaghi et al., 2017)
Materials and nanomaterials	Soft contact lenses (Munćan et al., 2016b; Šakota Rosić et al., 2016) fullerene based nanomaterials (Matija et al., 2012, 2017), and polystyrene particles (Tsenkova et al., 2007b)
Microbiology	Bacteria (Nakakimura et al., 2012; Remagni et al., 2013; Slavchev et al., 2015, 2017), and HIV virus (Sakudo et al., 2005)
Plant biology	Mosaic virus detection in soybeans (Jinendra et al., 2010), and abiotic and biotic stress (Jinendra, 2011)
Animal medicine	Mastitis in cows (Tsenkova et al., 2001a,b,c, 2005; Tsenkova and Atanassova, 2002; Atanassova et al., 2009; Meilina et al., 2009), udder health (Tsenkova, 1994), ovulation period in Bornean orangutan (Kinoshita et al., 2016), ovulation period in giant pandas (Kinoshita et al., 2010, 2012), estrus detection in cows (Takemura et al., 2015), and tissue discrimination (Sakudo et al., 2006a)
Human medicine	DNA mutations (Goto et al., 2015), HIV virus detection (Sakudo et al., 2005), tissue discrimination (Sakudo et al., 2006a), the state of metals in tissues (Sakudo et al., 2007), prion protein disease (Tsenkova et al., 2004), skin cream effects (Matija et al., 2013) dialysis efficacy monitoring (Munćan et al., 2016a), colorectal cancer diagnostics (Munćan et al., 2016a)