Humic Substances Contribute to Plant Iron Nutrition Acting as Chelators and Biostimulants

Plant biostimulants (Funneliformis mosseae and humic substances) rather than chemical fertilizer improved biochemical responses in peppermint. Saleh Shahabivand1*, Akbar Padash2, Ahmad Aghaee1, Yousef Nasiri3 and Parisa Fathi Rezaei1

Plant biostimulants such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and humic substances (HS) can be used as an appropriate alternative to chemical fertilizers, as regards to environmental problems of chemicals. The effects of Funneliformis mosseae as an AM fungus, HS (foliar spray and topdressing application), and chemical fertilizer (NK), separately or interacting, on biochemical responses in Menth...

Binding of mercury(II) to aquatic humic substances: influence of pH and source of humic substances.

Conditional distribution coefficients (K(DOM')) for Hg(II) binding to seven dissolved organic matter (DOM) isolates were measured at environmentally relevant ratios of Hg(II) to DOM. The results show that K(DOM') values for different types of samples (humic acids, fulvic acids, hydrophobic acids) isolated from diverse aquatic environments were all within 1 order of magnitude (10(22.5 +/-1.0)-10...

Aquatic Humic Substances

4 Chemical Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 4.1 Elemental Composition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 4.2 Molecular Size Distribution and Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 4.3 Spectral Absorbance and Fluorescence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 4.4 Infrared Spectra . . . . ....

Use of Plant Material for the Removal of Pollutants by Polymerization and Binding to Humic Substances

Cation binding by humic substances

Humic substances are highly abundant organic compounds formed in soils and sediments by the decay of dead plants, microbes and animals. This book focuses on the important binding properties of these compounds that regulate the chemical reactivity and bioavailability of hydrogen andmetal ions in the natural environment. Topics covered include the physico-chemical properties of humic matter and i...