RESOURCES

Welcome to the BioAg library where we continue to gather and add articles of interest regarding humic substances and biologicals. We have provided sources both historical and new for your convenience and interest.

Research and Literature:

• Auxin-like effect of HS
• Biostimulants for Turf Managers
• Commercial Humates for Ag and Fert
• Cucumber nutrient uptake fulvic
• Detergent Qualities of Humic Acids
• Effects of Humates on Salted Soils
• FA Stimulation of ATP
• FA and Root Formation
• Fertilizer & Humic Acid
• Fulvic Acid Research
• HA effects on Oyster Mushrooms
• Humates and Atrazine
• Humic acid benefits on spirulina production
• Inhibition of enzymatic indoleacetic acid oxidation
• Mitigating activity of humic substances
• Physiological action of HS on microbial cells
• Physiological effects of humates on higher plants
• Plant uptake of HS
• Reduction of Ammonia Loss w/mixed urea/HS

Recommended Reading:

Application possibilities of peat and and peat-humic acids in veterinary practice, Janos Ciscsor & Andras Toth (abstract in Moortherapie 2000)

Healing Mushrooms, Effective Treatments for Today’s Illnesses, Georges M. Halpern, MD, PhD, Square One Publishers, Garden City Park, NY, 2005.

Humic Substances, Wolfgang Ziechmann ISBN-10: 341116591X

Humic Substances in the Global Environment: Implications for Human Health, N. Senesi and T. M. Miano, , Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994.

Terminology of Humus Materials

Fulvates are the salts of fulvic acid.

Fulvic acid is the acid radical found in humic matter which is soluble in alkali, acid, methyl ethyl ketone, and methyl alcohol.

Humates are the salts of humic acids, collectively, or the salts of humic acid specifically. (The usage must be determined from the context.)

Humic acid (singular) is the acid radical found in humic matter which is soluble in alkali but insoluble in acid, methyl ethyl ketone, and methyl alcohol.

Humic acids (plural) is the collective name for the acid radicals found in humic matter. They may be separated from humic matter by alkaline extraction.

Humin is the alkali-insoluble fraction of leonardite. (The usage of this term does not correspond exactly with the usage by other workers.) .

Humus is the product of the decay of organic matter. It contains both humic and nonhumic material.

Leonardite is a soft brown coal-like deposit usually found in conjunction with deposits of lignite located in the Dakotas.

Lignite is a type of soft coal.