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The Remediation in Enzyme’s Activities in Plants: Tea Waste as a Modifier to Improve the Efficiency of Growth of Helianthus annuus in Contaminated Soil

Molecules 2022, 27(19), 6362; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27196362

by Sumeira Moin^1,*, Rafia Azmat²

, Waseem Ahmed^3,*, Abdul Qayyum⁴, Hamed A. El-Serehy⁵

and Daniel Ingo Hefft⁶

Reviewer 1:

Salihu Ibrahim

Reviewer 2:

Ziaul Haque

Molecules 2022, 27(19), 6362; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27196362

Submission received: 19 August 2022 / Revised: 6 September 2022 / Accepted: 12 September 2022 / Published: 27 September 2022

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Biology)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. In page 1 line 39-40, kindly insert reference(s)

2. Kindly delete the sentence, “the plant under abiotic stress related ………. _ survival to reverse the stress” (in line 40-42) as it is a repetition of second sentence in the introductory part.

3. In page 2 line 54, kindly delete 0.25mM

4. In page 2 line 57, kindly use correct reference citation format for the journal “Gouia et al. (2000)”. More so, the refence cited above is missing in the list of main refence.

5. In page 2 line 58-60, Kindly write the full meaning of “N” and leave only the abbreviation on N.R., NiR, as you have stated their meaning in your abstract

6. Kindly recast the sentences in line 69-76

7. Kindly state the percentage of the ethanol used in line 82 page 2

8. In line 90 page 2, it should be 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 ppm not 1,2.3,4,5 ppm

9. In line 91 page 2, the sentence “After 12 weeks of treatment of Cd” it should be “After 12 weeks of treatment with Cd

10. In line 92 page2, kindly replace the first “and” with “the”

11. In line 92 page2, kindly delete in the following way

12. In section 2.1, kindly provide references to back up your method.

13. In line 98-103, kindly provide references

14. In line 109, kindly replace “was” with “were”

15. In line 110, …… were as follows (temperature …..

16. In line 115-116, the sentence should be” Barres & Weatherly [11] method was used to calculate the total water absorption

17. In line 148, it should be “Miller [14] method was used to determine the reducing sugar in plants ……… you don’t have to state everything in details please

18. In section 2.7, you avoid stating sentence with number. Kindly correct it place/

19. In line 161, kindly delete “(UV-1800A) Shimadzu spectrophotometer”. In addition, delete the last sentence as well.

20. In line 275, delete “and increasing antioxidant”

21. In line 281, fig. should be written in full

22. In line 288-292, insert references as the sentences are strong statements that requires citations.

23. In line 292-293, kindly recast the sentence

24. In line 302-311, please references please as the statements are strong and required citation

25. Section 3.4 “Mechanism of remediation….” I thought the authors are presenting their results findings first before discussion, as this section is completely discussion. Kindly move it under discussion.

26. In line 314, delete therefore”

27. Kindly rewrite the conclusion in order to reflect your result findings. You are to conclude based on your results.

Author Response

In page 1 line 39-40, kindly insert reference(s)