Comparative Proteomics Profiling Illuminates the Fruitlet Abscission Mechanism of Sweet Cherry as Induced by Embryo Abortion

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This work is an excellent and successful paper in every respect. Therefore, there is no need for further comments here.

Some comments regarding the content and necessary corrections can be found in the MS (also submitted by Email).

I recommend this paper for publication (after minor revision)!

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer1:

Thank you for reviewing our manuscript (ijms-710990) entitled “Comparative proteomics profiling illuminates the fruitlet abscission mechanism of sweet cherry as induced by embryo abortion” by Qiu et al. Based on the valuable comments and thoughtful suggestions proposed by you, we carefully revised our manuscript. All of the comments and suggestions were taken into account as we modified the manuscript. A detailed list of our responses to the comments is listed below for your reference. We truly hope that the resubmission meets the requirements for publication in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ijms).

We made some more modifications in exception of the suggestions in the revised version. Also, we'd like to make further revision if it is necessary for publication.

Thank you again for your efforts with regard to our manuscript. We look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Zhilang QIU

Title: Comparative proteomics profiling illuminates the fruitlet abscission mechanism of sweet cherry as induced by embryo abortion

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Thank you for your relevant suggestions. We made the corresponding revision in the new version as the following:

Point 1: Some comments regarding the content and necessary corrections can be found in the MS (also submitted by Email).

Response 1: About these necessary corrections, we have made corrections, all revisions are listed below. In the Appendix Figure A1, we have changed ‘Figure.S1’to ‘Figure.A1’, changed ‘abscissing carpopodium and non-abscissing carpopodium’to ‘abscissing carpopodium (CA) and non-abscissing carpopodium (CN)’, and ‘GO’ to ‘Gene ontology (GO)’ in the revised version.

In the Appendix Figure A2, we have changed ‘KEGG’ to ‘Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)’ and ‘DAPs’ to ‘differential accumulated proteins (DAPs)’ in the revised version.

In the Appendix Figure A3, we have changed ‘DAPs’ to ‘differential accumulated proteins (DAPs)’ in the revised version.

Additionally, we tried our best to improve the manuscript and made some changes in the manuscript. These changes will not influence the content and framework of the paper. And here we did not list the changes but marked them using the "Track Changes" function in Microsoft Word.

We appreciate for Editor and Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper provides interesting new information regarding fruit abortion in cherry. The paper is well written and easy to follow. There are small mistakes in the English throughout; and these need correcting.

Some examples of these

Abstrat

Ln 20 change to 'cell wall degrading enzymes' and also was to were

Intro

Ln 47 change 'big nut for bumper harvest' this is slang and poor English. Something like ' can often reduce crop yield greatly' is better

Ln 52 change progress to process and delete highly

Author Response

Dear Reviewer2:

Thank you for reviewing our manuscript (ijms-710990) entitled “Comparative proteomics profiling illuminates the fruitlet abscission mechanism of sweet cherry as induced by embryo abortion” by Qiu et al. Based on the valuable comments and thoughtful suggestions proposed by you, we carefully revised our manuscript. All of the comments and suggestions were taken into account as we modified the manuscript. A detailed list of our responses to the comments is listed below for your reference. We truly hope that the resubmission meets the requirements for publication in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ijms).

We made some more modifications in exception of the suggestions in the revised version. Also, we'd like to make further revision if it is necessary for publication.

Thank you again for your efforts with regard to our manuscript. We look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

With best regards,

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Zhilang QIU

Title: Comparative proteomics profiling illuminates the fruitlet abscission mechanism of sweet cherry as induced by embryo abortion

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Thank you for your relevant suggestions. We made the corresponding revision in the new version as the following:

Point 1: Ln 20 change to 'cell wall degrading enzymes' and also was to were

Response 1: Thank you for your reminding. The word “enzyme” was corrected for “enzymes” in the sentence of the revised version.

Point 2: Ln 47 change 'big nut for bumper harvest' this is slang and poor English. Something like ' can often reduce crop yield greatly' is better

Response 2: Thank you for your suggestion. We have changed ‘big nut for bumper harvest’ to ‘can often reduce crop yield greatly’ in the sentence of the revised version.

Point 3: Ln 52 change progress to process and delete highly

Response 3: Thank you for your reminding. The word ‘progress’ was corrected for ‘process’, and the word ‘highly’ was deleted in the sentence of the revised version.

In addition, we tried our best to improve the manuscript and made some changes in the manuscript. These changes will not influence the content and framework of the paper. And here we did not list the changes but marked them using the "Track Changes" function in Microsoft Word.

We appreciate for Editors and Reviewers’ warm work earnestly, and hope that the correction will meet with approval.