Abstract

PANTOJA GUERRA, Manuel; ALMANZA PEREZ, Yezid  and  VALERO VALERO, Nelson. EVALUATION OF AUXIN-LIKE EFFECT OF HUMIC ACIDS ON MAIZE THROUGH DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS. rev.udcaactual.divulg.cient. [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.2, pp.361-369. ISSN 0123-4226.

The auxin-like effect consists in plant growth promotion by humic acids (HA). In this research the auxin-like effect was determined by digital image processing, both foliar and root surface of corn plants were assessed. The HA were obtained through alcaline solubilization coal, HA-NaOH and through coal bacterial solubilization, HA-CSB3 and HA-CSB25. The application of the HA solutions of 20, 80 and 150mgHA/L was evaluated through seed immersion and foliar spray on two week-old plants. The experiment was carried out under shade cloth with five replicates by treatments; 30 days after planting in soil, leaf area was measured using ImageJ software and total root surface through an algorithm of Matlab. Significant increase in leaf area of plants treated by immersion of seeds in HA-BSC3-80mg/L and 150mg/L, AH-CSB25-20mg/L and 150mg/L, and HA-NaOH-80mg/L was found, as well as in plants treated by foliar aspersion of HA-CSB3-150mg/L, AH-CSB 25-150mg/L and HA-NaOH-150mg/L. Moreover significant increase in total root surface of plants treated with HA-CSB25-150mg/L, HA-NaOH-80mg/L and HA-CSB3-80mg/L and all treatments of HA by aspersion was found. The auxin-like effect of humic acids on maize plants was evidenced through digital image analysis; this tool can produce accurate information to measure some plant development parameters.

Keywords : Digital processing; humic substances; Matlab; ImageJ.

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