Can ridge-furrow with film and straw mulching improve wheat-maize system productivity and maintain soil fertility on the Loess Plateau of China?

Biodegradable mulching film with an optimum degradation rate improves soil environment and enhances maize growth

(2019) Minhua Yin et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Exploring optimal soil mulching for the wheat-maize cropping system in sub-humid drought-prone regions in China

(2019) Yajin Hu et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Ridge-furrow mulching with black plastic film improves maize yield more than white plastic film in dry areas with adequate accumulated temperature

(2018) Xiaoliang Qin et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of ridge-furrow film mulching and nitrogen fertilization on growth, seed yield and water productivity of winter oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) in Northwestern China

(2018) Xiao-Bo Gu et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Effects of straw mulching and plastic film mulching on improving soil organic carbon and nitrogen fractions, crop yield and water use efficiency in the Loess Plateau, China

(2018) Qin’ge Dong et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Heat accumulation and soil properties as affected by transparent plastic mulch in Blackgram ( Vigna mungo ) doubled cropped with Groundnut ( Arachis hypogaea ) in sequence under rainfed conditions in Tamil Nadu, India

(2018) K. Subrahmaniyan et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Film-mulched continuous ridge-furrow planting improves soil temperature, nutrient content and enzymatic activity in a winter oilseed rape field, Northwest China

(2018) Xiaobo Gu et al.   Journal of Arid Land

Ridge-furrow full film mulching: An adaptive management strategy to reduce irrigation of dryland winter rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) in northwest China

(2018) Xiaobo Gu et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of film mulching and nitrogen fertilization on rhizosphere soil environment, root growth and nutrient uptake of winter oilseed rape in northwest China

(2018) Xiao-Bo Gu et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Effects of straw application on coastal saline topsoil salinity and wheat yield trend

(2017) Wenjun Xie et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Ridge-furrow rainwater harvesting with supplemental irrigation to improve seed yield and water use efficiency of winter oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.)

(2017) Xiao-bo GU et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

Effect of rainfall concentration with different ridge widths on winter wheat production under semiarid climate

(2016) Xiaolong Ren et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

Alternate or equal ridge–furrow pattern: Which is better for maize production in the rain-fed semi-arid Loess Plateau of China?

(2016) Ibrahim M. Eldoma et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Continuous ridges with film mulching improve soil water content, root growth, seed yield and water use efficiency of winter oilseed rape

(2016) Xiao-Bo Gu et al.   INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS

Plastic mulching in agriculture. Trading short-term agronomic benefits for long-term soil degradation?

(2016) Zacharias Steinmetz et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Dynamics of soil labile organic carbon fractions and C-cycle enzyme activities under straw mulch in Chengdu Plain

(2016) Sen Li et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Effects of different paper mulches on soil temperature and yield of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) in the temperate zone

(2015) Tapani Haapala et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD SCIENCE

Mulching increases water-use efficiency of peach production on the rainfed semiarid Loess Plateau of China

(2015) Hong Wang et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Balancing green and grain trade

(2015) Yiping Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effects of plastic mulch and crop rotation on soil physical properties in rain-fed vegetable production in the mid-Yunnan plateau, China

(2015) G.S. Zhang et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Water resources and their management in central Asia in the early twenty first century: status, challenges and future prospects

(2014) Daniel Karthe et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus, L.) water use efficiency (WUE) under plastic mulch and drip irrigation

(2013) T. Yaghi et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Effects of water management with plastic film in a semi-arid agricultural system on available soil carbon fractions

(2013) Chang-An Liu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Labile soil organic matter fractions as influenced by non-flooded mulching cultivation and cropping season in rice–wheat rotation

(2013) Jing Tian et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Effect of plastic sheet mulch, wheat straw mulch, and maize growth on water loss by evaporation in dryland areas of China

(2012) S.X. Li et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Ridge-furrow and plastic-mulching tillage enhances maize–soil interactions: Opportunities and challenges in a semiarid agroecosystem

(2011) Li-Min Zhou et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Tillage and crop residue effects on rainfed wheat and maize production in northern China

(2011) Xiaobin Wang et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth and development of maize (Zea mays L.) in response to different field water management practices: Resource capture and use efficiency

(2010) Liu Yi et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

How two ridges and the furrow mulched with plastic film affect soil water, soil temperature and yield of maize on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China

(2009) Li-Min Zhou et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Effects of mulch, N fertilizer, and plant density on wheat yield, wheat nitrogen uptake, and residual soil nitrate in a dryland area of China

(2009) Yajun Gao et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Effect of different biodegradable and polyethylene mulches on soil properties and production in a tomato crop

(2008) M.M. Moreno et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE