Oa. Trubetskaya et al., FRACTIONATION OF SOIL HUMIC SUBSTANCES BY ELECTROPHORESIS IN POLYACRYLAMIDE-GEL IN THE PRESENCE OF DENATURING AGENTS, Eurasian soil science, 26(9), 1994, pp. 104-109
A new method is proposed for fractionation of soil humic substances by
electrophoresis in 10 percent polyacrylamide gel in a tris-borate sys
tem in the presence of a complex of denaturing agents. For six soils o
f different genesis, well reproducible qualitatively similar electroph
erograms are obtained with separation of humic substances into five di
screte zones. Scanning of the electropherograms shows that soils of di
fferent genesis are distinguished by the quantitative ratio of the fra
ctions obtained.