The effects of humic acid and water hardness on acute cadmium toxicity and accumulation were determined, using Puntius gonionotus Bleeker. The toxicities were expressed as the median lethal concentration (LC50) and the 96-h LC50 value of cadmium was 2.30 mg/L. Three different types of water hardness were used: soft, moderately-hard and hard, with total hardness concentrations of 55, 113, and 22...

Background: Medical plants production, including borago, is for maximum productivity from their effective ingredients’. Flowers, leaves and seed oil are medical parts of borago. Unfortunately, because of little breeding and domestication programs in medical plants, including borago, their establishments are usually slow. One of the effective techniques for solving this problem is seed priming. ...

The phase transitions and hygroscopic growth of two humic acid aerosols (Aldrich sodium salt and Leonardite Standard (IHSS)) and their mixtures with ammonium sulphate have been investigated using a combination of two techniques, Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopy and tandem differential mobility analysis (TDMA). A growth factor of 1.16 at 85% relative humidity (RH ) was found for t...

The study was conducted in the wooden canopy of Department Horticulture and Landscape Engineering / College Agriculture Tikrit University during growing season 2021-2022, to effect spraying with glutamic acid nano-zinc oxide on some vegetative growth characteristics, mineral content, active substance anatomical characteristics Lavendula Angustifolia Mill. A factorial trial carried out two facto...

a research trial was conducted during 2011-2012 to elucidate the effects of humic acid (ha) and npk to determine the optimum rate against different growth and floral attributes on tulip cultivar viz. ‘triumph’. the following five treatments t0 : (control), t1: 10 g/m2 npk (17:17:17), t2 : ha 0.75 ml (8%) + 10 g/m2 npk (17:17:17), t3: ha 1.00 ml (8%) + 10 g/m2 npk (17:17:17) and t4: ha 1.25 ml (...

BACKGROUND Un-doped and N-doped TiO2 nano-particles with different nitrogen contents were successfully synthesized by a simple sol-gel method, and were characterized by X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, Energy dispersive X-ray analysis and UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra techniques. Then enhancement of sonocatalytic degradation of humic acid by un-doped and ...

Two soil humic acids (HA), a marine sediment HA, and a soil fulvic acid (FA), were fractionated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of denaturing agents before and after 6N HCl hydrolysis. After acid hydrolysis, the intensity of the high molecular size (MS) fraction decreased considerably in all HAs. On the other hand, a new high-MS fraction appeared in the FA after hydrolysis...