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Humic Substances for Agricultural Applications: Properties and Challenges

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Nowadays, humic substances, the main organic components of soils and many fossil sediments, are becoming a material of wide application in agriculture and many technologies. Elemental, functional and spectral (UV, fluorescence, FTIR, 13C NMR spectra) analysis of industrially produced, as well as reference humic substances demonstrate significant differences in properties of humic substances depending on their origin, and thus, their potential application in agriculture. For authentication of humic substances’ origin, their elemental composition, as well as stable isotope (δC, δN, δO) ratios can be used.

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This research was funded by the Latvia Council of Science grant “Properties and structure of peat humic substances and possibilities of their modification” lzp-2018/1-0009.

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  1. University of Latvia, Raina Blvd.19, LV, 1586, Riga, Latvia

    Maris Klavins, Arturs Viksna, Maris Bertins, Janis Krumins & Karina Upska

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Klavins, M., Viksna, A., Bertins, M., Krumins, J., Upska, K. (2021). Humic Substances for Agricultural Applications: Properties and Challenges. In: Ksibi, M., et al. Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions (2nd Edition). EMCEI 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51210-1_168

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