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PLANTA
Volume 225, Issue 6, Pages 1583-1595Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0454-2
Keywords
cell expansion; H+-PPase; humic substances; lateral root initiation; plant growth regulators; V-ATPase
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Increasing evidences have indicated that humic substances can induce plant growth and productivity by functioning as an environmental source of auxinic activity. Here we comparatively evaluate the effects of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and humic acids (HA) isolated from two different soils (Inseptsol and Ultisol) and two different organic residues (vermicompost and sewage sludge) on root development and on activities of plasmalemma and tonoplast H+ stoppumps from maize roots. The data show that HA isolated from these different sources as well as low IAA concentrations (10(-10) and 10(-15) M) improve root growth through a markedly proliferation of lateral roots along with a differential activation not only of the plasmalemma but also of vacuolar H+-ATPases and H+-pyrophosphatase. Further, the vacuolar H+-ATPase had a peak of stimulation in a range from 10(-8) to 10(-10) M IAA, whereas the H+-pyrophosphatase was sensitive to a much broader range of IAA concentrations from 10(-3) to 10(-15) M. It is proposed a complementary view of the acid growth mechanism in which a concerted activation of the plasmalemma and tonoplast H+ supercript stoppumps plays a key role in the root cell expansion process driven by environment-derived molecules endowed with auxinic activity, such as that of humic substances.
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