title: Effects of humic acids derived from lignite and cattle manure on antioxidant enzymatic activities of barley root.
abstract: To investigate the effects of humic acids (HAs) on the ability of plants to defend themselves against oxidative stress, barley was hydroponically cultured in the absence and presence of HAs, and the antioxidant enzymatic activities (catalase, superoxide dismutase, ascorbate and glutathione peroxidases) of root tissue were evaluated. Auxin-like structures in HAs, which were extracted from an oxidation product of lignite (LHA) and compost derived from cattle manure (CHA), were identified by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) with tetramethylammonium hydroxide. The LHA, which had the lower molecular weight, was more effective in promoting the growth of barley root than CHA. However, the amounts of auxin-like structures in the CHA were much higher than those for LHA. The antioxidant enzymatic activities were initially decreased in the presence of LHA and CHA at the first day after refreshing the culture solution, but were significantly increased on the second day. The CHA sample, which contained relatively high levels of phenolic acids that contained auxin-like structures, was effective in increasing four types of enzymatic activities, while the activities of catalase and ascorbate peroxidase were increased in the presence of LHA, which contains naphthalene derivatives. These results indicate that using HAs as a supplement can be effective in enhancing antioxidation enzymatic activities, while the appearance of the effects is retarded because of the decomposition and release of auxin-like compounds from HAs by organic acids from the plant roots.
authors.affiliation: a Laboratory of Chemical, Resources, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan.
authors.forename: Kenya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nagasawa
authors.affiliation: a Laboratory of Chemical, Resources, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan.
authors.forename: Binhui
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a Laboratory of Chemical, Resources, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishiya
authors.affiliation: a Laboratory of Chemical, Resources, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan.
authors.forename: Kensuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ushijima
authors.affiliation: a Laboratory of Chemical, Resources, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan.
authors.forename: Qianqian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: a Laboratory of Chemical, Resources, Division of Sustainable Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University , Sapporo , Japan.
authors.forename: Masami
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukushima
authors.affiliation: b Vaccine & Biomedicine Department , Life Innovation Research Institute, Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha , Machida , Tokyo , Japan.
authors.forename: Toshiharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ichijo
keywords: Humic acid; TMAH-pyrolysis-GC/MS; antioxidant enzymatic activity; auxin-like structures; barley; hydroponic culture