Plastic film mulching (PM) is widely used to improve soil temperature and moisture in rainfed agriculture
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The gap
Plastic film mulching (PM) is widely used to improve soil temperature and moisture in rainfed agriculture, but the combined effects of PM proportions and nitrogen (N) fertilization on spring maize under different hydrological conditions remain unclear.
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Sourced from the abstract and stated research gap of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 3 journals.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Establishing and assessing a new two-dimensional module in CERES-maize for maize production under mulched drip irrigation (2025) · Agricultural Water Management · doi
In conclusion, the 2D CERES-Maize model preliminarily established in this study basically realized the simulation of maize production under mulched drip irrigation, but how to consider the warming effect of plastic film mulching in the model remains to be further improved.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: maize model conclusion ceres preliminarily established basically realized simulation production mulched drip irrigation consider warming - Optimizing plastic film mulching and nitrogen fertilizer strategies for spring maize in Loess Plateau through field experiments and enhanced AquaCrop modeling (2025) · Journal of Integrative Agriculture · doi
Plastic film mulching (PM) is widely used to improve soil temperature and moisture in rainfed agriculture, but the combined effects of PM proportions and nitrogen (N) fertilization on spring maize under different hydrological conditions remain unclear.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: plastic film mulching widely used improve soil temperature moisture rainfed agriculture combined effects proportions nitrogen - Comparative study of crop growth models in field water and heat dynamics and maize growth under different irrigation conditions with film mulching (2026) · Irrigation Science · doi
There is a need to compare crop growth models under different irrigation conditions with film mulching. The existing studies have not evaluated the performance of different crop models in characterizing soil water-heat dynamics and crop growth processes.
generalstated research gapevidence 5/5Keywords: there need compare crop growth models different irrigation
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