Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41644697›Full record

ArticleNature food2026

China's agricultural plastic mulch transition is a food security imperative with global implications.

Mingrong Liang, Shaokun Li, Yuling Liang, Yunbo Song, Yongyue Lu, Zhijian Yu, Ling Tang, Xinwei Yin, Noreen Khalid, Asim Biswas

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Article in Nature food, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Mingrong LiangCollege of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China. liangmr0321@connect.hku.hk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2982-2983
Shaokun LiJoint International Research Laboratory of Catastrophe Simulation and Systemic Risk Governance, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China. lishaokun@mail.bnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-6298-2227
Yuling LiangCollege of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Yunbo SongCollege of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Yongyue LuCollege of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
Zhijian YuDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Ling TangInstitutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4192-4125
Xinwei YinNorthwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
Noreen KhalidDepartment of Botany, Government College Women University, Sialkot, Pakistan. Noreen.khalid@gcwus.edu.pk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6503-4082
Asim BiswasSchool of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. biswas@uoguelph.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0801-3546

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID41644697

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