Chemical properties of humic matter as related to induction of plant lateral roots

A series of humic matter samples isolated from a soil sequence, different oxisols, size‐fractionated from a vermicompost humic acid and subjected to chemical modifications, were characterized by CPMAS 13C‐NMR spectroscopy. The relative signal areas in chemical shift regions of NMR spectra of the four sets of samples were analysed by principal component analysis (PCA). Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) was applied to build a classification model, which allowed the recognition of humic matter according to its origin. The relationship between carbon species and biological activity of humic acids, as promoters of lateral root emergence, was obtained by applying PLS multivariate analysis. This showed that lateral root emergence was mostly related to NMR parameters such as the hydrophobicity index (HB/HI) and the 40–110 and 160–200 ppm chemical shift regions (hydrophilic carbon HI), while the content of hydrophobic (HB) carbon in humic samples was negatively correlated with induction of lateral root hair. Our results represent a step further in the structure‐bioactivity relationship of natural humic substances and confirm their role as plant root growth promoters.

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