Root growth of tomato seedlings intensified by humic substances from peat bogs

Peats are an important reserve of humified carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. The interest in the use of humic substances as plant growth promoters is continuously increasing. The objective of this study was to evaluate the bioactivity of alkaline soluble humic substances (HS), humic (HA) and fulvic...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Christofaro Silva, Luciano Pasqualoto Canellas, Fábio Lopes Olivares, Leonardo Barros Dobbss, Natalia Oliveira Aguiar, Daniele Ângela Rossinol Frade, Carlos Eduardo Rezende, Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira Peres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ciência do Solo 2011-10-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832011000500015&lng=en&tlng=en