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HA/NOM Structure and Bioactivity

Dr Marios Drosos

  1. Numerous studies carried out both in open field and laboratory scale have provided experimental evidence for a beneficial action of humic substances (HS) on plant growth and mineral nutrition. In fact, many pr...

    Authors: J. Erro, O. Urrutia, R. Baigorri, M. Fuentes, A. M. Zamarreño and J. M. Garcia-Mina
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2016 3:18
  2. The objective of this research was to evaluate, in saline-sodic soils, the effect of the application of a low rank coal (LRC), lignite type, along with an inoculation of bacteria that release humified organic ...

    Authors: Juan Guillermo Cubillos-Hinojosa, Nelson Osvaldo Valero and Luz Marina Melgarejo
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:21
  3. The study of clay fractions is usually focused on water-dispersible clay (WDC), which is a good indicator of many soil processes involving water (water erosion, transfer and removal of nutrients and contaminan...

    Authors: Lira A. Matiushkina and Galina V. Kharitonova
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:18
  4. Negentropy and entropy fluctuations, which are concepts of out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics, were considered in the development of a simple potentiometric titration method for the study of natural complex sys...

    Authors: Vicente Rodrigues de Almeida and Bruno Szpoganicz
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:17

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:22

  5. Humic substances are considered to be composed of relatively small, heterogeneous molecules bound by weak linkages. The dissociation of acid-soluble constituents from soil humic acids (HAs) during the preparat...

    Authors: Masakazu Aoyama
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:16
  6. The change in the optical parameters of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from natural water samples of Pirita River in Estonia were studied during 2 years of winter–spring season. At present, the relative quanti...

    Authors: Viia Lepane, Laura Depret, Anna-Liisa Väli and Kristel Suursööt
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:14
  7. Humic substances are ubiquitous in the environment, complex mixtures, and known to be beneficial to plant growth. To better understand and identify components responsible for plant growth stimulation, a terres...

    Authors: Rachel L Sleighter, Paolo Caricasole, Kristen M Richards, Terry Hanson and Patrick G Hatcher
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:9
  8. Liquid-state 31P-NMR spectroscopy becomes progressively an important role for studying phosphorus (P) dynamics in soil. Soils of different origin and organic matter content were used to optimize sample preparatio...

    Authors: Meng Li, Pierluigi Mazzei, Vincenza Cozzolino, Hiarhi Monda, Zhengyi Hu and Alessandro Piccolo
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:7
  9. The effects of a humic substance (HS) extracted from a volcanic soil on the nitrate assimilation pathway of Zea mays seedlings were thoroughly examined using physiological and molecular approaches. Plant growth, ...

    Authors: Silvia Vaccaro, Andrea Ertani, Antonio Nebbioso, Adele Muscolo, Silvia Quaggiotti, Alessandro Piccolo and Serenella Nardi
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:5
  10. The humic acid (HA) fraction of soil organic matter (SOM) exerts an effective plant growth promotion through a complex mechanism involving a coordinated activation of several key ion transport and signaling sy...

    Authors: Alessandro C Ramos, Leonardo B Dobbss, Leandro A Santos, Mânlio S Fernandes, Fábio L Olivares, Natália O Aguiar and Luciano P Canellas
    Citation: Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture 2015 2:3