Identification of the Xyloglucan Endotransglycosylase/Hydrolase (XTH) Gene Family Members Expressed in Boehmeria nivea in Response to Cadmium Stress
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I have gone through the manuscript entitled” Identification of the xyloglucan endotransglycosylase/hydrolases (XTH) gene family members expressed in Boehmeria niveain response to Cadmium stress” . The manuscript is related to the role of Boehmeria nivea (ramie) XTH genes identified from Boehmeria nivea genome sequence and its response to Cadmium stress tolerance.In the manuscript the authors have selected some important XTH genes from genome sequence of ramie and they have functionally validated in these selected genes for cadmium tolerance via RT-PCR. Further they have checked their expression at transgenic level. This is an important study. However the figure 6 are not clearly visible. I advised the authors to include high resolution figure for the same.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer:
Thank you very much for your attention and the referee's evaluation and comments on our paper ijms-2090158. We have revised the manuscript according to your detailed suggestions. Enclosed please find the attachment.
Thank you very much for all your help and looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely yours,
Yushen Ma
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Reviewer 2 Report
Add some data in the abstract
There are some linguistic mistakes in the abstract, check and throughout the manuscript
Abbreviation in Table 1 must be indicated in footnote
Figure 6 should be divided into two sub figure 6A and 6B for clarity
Clear in detail the mechanism of BnXTH gene in mitigating Cd on the level of protein content, antioxidant defense system etc,
Provide all devices origin and model
Line 411, Use LSD or Duncan as post hoc
Enhance conclusion
Update references, check the outputs of all references and consider the reference style regarding the year should be bold
Author Response
Dear Reviewer:
Thank you very much for your attention and the referee's evaluation and comments on our paper ijms-2090158. We have revised the manuscript according to your detailed suggestions. Enclosed please find the attachment.
Thank you very much for all your help and looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely yours,
Yushen Ma
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
After checking the author's response, I recommended that this work can be accepted in the IJMS
