Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

 

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The author studied cross-talk between sucrose and BR signaling with respect to hypocotyl elongation in the dark and established that BIN2 serves as a converging node that integrates the cross-talk between sugar and BR signaling in the regulation of plant growth. Accumulation of BZR1 in bzr1-1D mutant plants partially rescues the growth defects induced by the TOR inhibitor AZD, and that these plants display a normal phenotype similar to that of wild-type plants in response to both sucrose and non-sucrose treatments, thereby indicating that accumulated BZR1 functions, at least partially, in the sucrose-promoted elongation of hypocotyls. The manuscript is well structured and well discussed. However, some points should be checked and corrected.  Therefore, I recommend major revision according to given my comments.

1. The abstract is not clear. Please add the aim and objective of the review.
2. Figures 4 and 5 please provide the statistical significance.
3. Please speculate on the results. The discussion must improve.
4. The MS English needs to be improved. The article's English must be carefully checked for grammatical errors.
5. In Conclusion, the authors should add the significance of this review, and its potential practical application.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors have properly taken into account my critical concerns. Hopefully they stimulate the authors to go deeper into the complex cross-talks between sucrose, glucose and hormone signaling.     

Reviewer 2 Report

The requested corrections were completed.