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In contrast to their soil counterparts, algal fulvic acids were more inhibitory than the corresponding humic acids. Fulvic and humic acids fromFucus vesiculosus were more efficient than the correspondingLaminaria digitata acids in inactivating the enzyme.Laminaria humic acids, which have no phenolic hydroxyls, showed a concentration dependent inhibition hardly in accordance with the presumed role played by these groups in the activity of oxidases.
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Pereira, J.R., Méndez, J. Inhibition of peroxidase by algal humic and fulvic acids. Biol Plant 18, 179–182 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02922798
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