Mathieu Ngouajio

TL;DR: The use of plastic mulch in agriculture has increased dramatically in the last 10 years throughout the world as mentioned in this paper, due to benefits such as increase in soil temperature, reduced weed pressure, moisture conservation, reduction of certain insect pests, higher crop yields, and more efficient use of soil nutrients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the biodegradation and hydrolysis rates of an aliphatic aromatic copolyester were measured in manure, food, and yard compost environments and in phosphate buffer solution (pH = 8.0) and vermiculite at 58°C.

TL;DR: It is concluded that both rye and rye-vetch mixture can affect the functional diversity of soil microbial community but differences between them are marginal when compared to compost and no-compost treatments.

TL;DR: The black biodegradable film seems to be a more promising alternative as a mulch film because of the comparable yields and weed suppression ability to conventional mulchFilm.

TL;DR: The results indicate that crosslinking is a key process underlying the degradation of the PBAT film and did affect theBiodegradability of the films, since the samples with greater amount of gel content generally showed less percent mineralization in the biodegradation tests.