“…In this respect, there are effects on uptake of macronutrients and micronutrients (Albuzio et al, 1986;Lobartoni & Orioli, 1988;Mishra & Srivastava, 1988;Rzaev et al, 1989;Chen & Aviad, 1990;Piccolo et al, 1993;Mackowiak et al, 2001), photosynthesis (Zimmerman, 1981;Vaughan & Malcolm, 1985;Nardi et al, 1991) protein and nucleic acid synthesis (Vaughan & Malcolm, 1985;Maggioni et al, 1987;Durante et al, 1992), and enzyme activities such as phosphatase (Malcolm & Vaughan, 1979a, 1979b, invertase (Concheri et al, 1992) peroxidase (Concheri et al, 1992;Retta et al, 1992) and nitrate reductase (Albuzio et al, 1986;Cacco et al, 2000). Humic matter may also modulate the activity of H+ -ATPase of both plasmalema and tonoplast H+-ATPases.…”