Claim · model-written summary
Mean crop coefficient was lower under plastic mulching than without it in the early and late season.
- Treatment
- plastic mulching treatmente5
- Outcome
- mean K ce5
- Direction
- lowere5
- Qualifier
- in both the early and late seasone5
- Comparator
- non-mulching treatmente5
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Verbatim
e0“Our investigations into the water consumption patterns of maize ( L.) grown using surface drip irrigation with and without plastic mulching”
e5“The mean K c was lower for the plastic mulching treatment than for the non-mulching treatment in both the early and late season, while it was slightly higher at mid-season”
Title
Chuanjuan Wang; Jiandong Wang; Di Xu; et al. Transactions of the ASABE 2019. doi:10.13031/trans.13093
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching significantly reduced soil evaporation by 41.6 to 53.5 mm compared with no mulching.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching increased plant transpiration by 23.2 to 40.4 mm, a change not significant.
- Intervention effect Plastic mulching normally reduced crop evapotranspiration, but the change was not significant.
- Intervention effect The three-year mean crop coefficient declined by 3.0% under plastic mulching.
- Intervention effect Mean crop coefficient was slightly higher under plastic mulching at mid-season.
- Intervention effect Mid-season crop coefficients under plastic mulching and non-mulching were 1.06 and 1.05 lower than the FAO-56 recommended value.
- Observation The crop coefficient model based on GDD soil achieved the best fitting accuracy.
- Recommendation The authors recommend applying the GDD soil model to mulched drip irrigation of maize in northeastern China.