Claim · model-written summary
Black plastic mulch increased soil water content and topsoil temperature.
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Verbatim
e0“T and B treatment increased soil water content (SWC) and topsoil temperature.”
t0“Maize”
Title
Chuanjuan Wang; Jiandong Wang; Yanqun Zhang; et al. Agriculture 2022. doi:10.3390/agriculture12081112
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Transparent plastic mulch increased soil water content and topsoil temperature.
- Intervention effect Transparent mulch raised early growth rate 27.7–43.4% versus no mulch.
- Intervention effect TH increased spring maize grain yield 9.8–17.4% over other treatments in 2019.
- Intervention effect TH increased summer maize grain yield 8.9% over NH in 2020.
- Intervention effect BH increased summer maize grain yield 4.7% over NH in 2020.
- Association ET and grain yield had a significant quadratic relationship in 2019.
- Association Soil SEAT at 0–10 cm depth was positively correlated with grain yield.
- Association Soil SEAT at 0–10 cm depth was positively correlated with biomass.
- Recommendation The authors recommend TH for spring maize in the North China Plain.
- Recommendation The authors recommend TH and BH for summer maize in the North China Plain.