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  • Mónica A. Lugo 1,2,*,
  • Roberto Emanuel Ontivero 1,3,4 and
  • Marcela C. Pagano 5
  • et al.

Reviewer 1: Anonymous Reviewer 2: Parul Chaudhary

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article “The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their associations in South America: a case study of Argentinean and Brazilian cattle raising productive ecosystems. A review.” is devoted to a relevant issue - the diversity of mycorrhizal fungi in different   ecosystems depending on a variety of factors. This article presents a detailed, well-structured review that could be useful to research scientists, students and readers interested in this issue.  A significant volume of scientific publications has been analyzed, intellectual processing and data comparison has been performed. The current mathematical and statistical methods of the analysis of the obtained data are applied. All data is clearly presented in figures and diagrams.

To improve the quality of the material provided in the article, I recommend a minor revision.

-        Abstract – add specific data reflecting the content of the entire manuscript

-        Table 1 – I recommend changing the format of the table. Overly detailed note. Move some of the data from the note to the table itself

-        Figure 12 – Give a detailed description of the symbols and colors on the diagram for a better perception of it.

Author Response

Reviewers' comments:

Reviewer 1:

The article “The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi andtheir associations in South America: a case study of Argentinean and Brazilian cattle raising productive ecosystems. A review.” is devoted to a relevant issue - the diversity of mycorrhizal fungi in different ecosystems depending on a variety of factors. This article presents a detailed, well-structured review that could be useful to research scientists, students and readers interested in this issue.

A significant volume of scientific publications has been analyzed, intellectual processing and data comparison has been performed. The current mathematical and statistical methods of the analysis of the obtained data are applied. All data is clearly presented in figures and diagrams.

To improve the quality of the material provided in the article, I recommend a minor revision:

Reviewer: Abstract – add specific data reflecting the content of the entire manuscript

Answer: We are very grateful for the evaluation received by the reviewer and her/his kind way of correcting the first manuscript of our Review. Furthermore, the Abstract was changed following the suggestions, to the extent of the number of maximum words required (200) by the Journal has allowed it.

Reviewer: Table 1 – I recommend changing the format of the table. Overly detailed note. Move some of the data from the note to the table itself.

Answer: It was modified following the suggestion. Thus, we included all the citations in a new column and deleted the detailed note in the references of the table. Furthermore, the item References was also modified in agreement with the changes performed in Table 1.

Reviewer: Figure 12 – Give a detailed description of the symbols and colors on the diagram for a better perception of it.

Answer: Reference of the Figure 12 was modified following the suggestion.

 

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Minor corrections are required for the publication of this manuscript entitled “The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their associations in South America: a case study of Argentinean and Brazilian cattle raising productive ecosystems. A review.”.

  1. Abstract: This section doesn't highlight enough the novelty of this described manuscript. The exact applications of the study findings are also not emphasized enough which is insufficient to frame the whole picture of the present study. What is the problem/question and why you conducting this research explain in abstract section.
  2. Add more information related to this work with recent references (2018-2023). Improve the introduction section with latest references. Authors may consider these works: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-022-00439-0,  https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771558-017.
  3. The authors should address the goals of the study and emphasize research gaps, what should future studies in this area focus on? Please update the introduction and discussion with recent references.

Minor editing

Author Response

Reviewers' comments:

Reviewer 2:

Minor corrections are required for the publication of this manuscript entitled “The diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their associations in South America: a case study of Argentinean and Brazilian cattle raising productive ecosystems. A review.”

 

Reviewer: Abstract: This section doesn't highlight enough the novelty of this described manuscript. The exact applications of the study findings are also not emphasized enough which is insufficient to frame the whole picture of the present study. What is the problem/question and why you conducting this research explain in abstract section.

Answer: The authors feel very honored to have received this evaluation. We have revised and improved the Abstract as suggested by the reviewer. Further, the language along the text was also revised, and the changes were made to the wording.

Reviewer: Add more information related to this work with recent references (2018-2023). Improve the introduction section with latest references. Authors may consider these works:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s41742-022-00439-0

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110771558-017.

Answer: We have included more recent references and both works proposed by the Reviewer to improve the introduction section. These proposed papers were included as citations [12] and [13]. We have also modified consequently the rest of citations numbers and their positions in the Reference section.

 

Reviewer: The authors should address the goals of the study and emphasize research gaps, what should future studies in this area focus on? Please update the introduction and discussion with recent references.

Answer: We have highlighted the gaps and future approaches to the subject, discussing and comparing the results with the most up-to-date bibliography. In addition, in Conclusion section we have included the citations [153-155] published in 2023 to reinforce our focus on these issues.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf