Effects of a Microbial Vetch Fertilizer on the Disease Resistance, Yield, and Quality of Sweet Waxy Corn
, Li Yu, Cheng Zhou, Meng Wang, Kun Zhang, Chaofan Hu, Zhangjun Su and Haibing YuRound 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for Authors1. It is necessary to highlight the relevance and novelty of the research and clearly define the purpose of the research.
2. In the Introduction the literature review is presented sufficiently, the purpose of the study and its relevance are sufficiently substantiated.
3. The methods are described well, readers will be able to reproduce this experiment if necessary.
4. The presented results are well described and interpreted.
5. The discussion is well structured and a sufficient amount of references are used.
6. In your Conclusions, highlight the practical significance of the results obtained.
Author Response
Thank you very much for your review. The following is my response.
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Comments 1: [It is necessary to highlight the relevance and novelty of the research and clearly define the purpose of the research.] |
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Response 1: Thank you for your guidance. I understand the importance of emphasizing the research's relevance and novelty. We have already made modifications. |
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Comments 2: [ In the Introduction the literature review is presented sufficiently, the purpose of the study and its relevance are sufficiently substantiated.] |
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Response 2: Thank you for your positive review. |
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Comments 3: [The methods are described well, readers will be able to reproduce this experiment if necessary.] |
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Response 3: Thank you for your positive review. |
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Comments 4: [The presented results are well described and interpreted.] |
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Response 4: Thank you for your positive evaluation. |
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Comments 5: [The discussion is well structured and a sufficient amount of references are used.] |
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Response 5: Thank you for your positive review. |
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Comments 6: [In your Conclusions, highlight the practical significance of the results obtained.] |
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Response 6: Thank you for your suggestion. I understand the importance of emphasizing the practical implications of our findings in the conclusions. We have already made modifications. |
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsI greatly appreciate the thoroughness in the methodology description – it's excellent that you provide specific dates. The work is original and very interesting; however, as a reviewer, I have a few comments. I hope that implementing them will make the paper even more polished.
I really appreciate the way the results are presented – the paper is very readable.
I have no objections regarding the citation guidelines – I only notice a missing space in Ref 55, line 713. This section has been correctly followed by the rules, for which I sincerely thank you.
Please pay attention to standardizing the font sizes – errors appear as early as the beginning of the document. Additionally, ensure the correct formatting of microorganism names – italics are not consistently used throughout the entire paper, for example, in lines 126–127.
For section 2.1.2. Culture medium, I believe that preparing a diagram or graphic would enhance the quality of the work.
In the methodology section, you should describe the tests more comprehensively, as the sentence "Inhibitory activity was assessed using confrontation tests [35]" is too vague. This could be improved similarly to how Chiang et al. approached it in their research. There is a similar situation in line 137.
line 162: It would definitely be better to express this in liters rather than kilograms.
Please note that if you use abbreviations, as is the case with MVF, you should consistently use only the abbreviation throughout the text, rather than repeating the full name.
line 269: "July" is duplicated
I do not understand point 3.3 and '3.3.1. Effects of different MVF amounts on sweet-waxy corn development and productivity in the 2023 field experiment' – why is there no accompanying text here? Please revise this section to make it clearer and more acceptable. You can remove one point and add 'in 2023 field experiment' to the title of section 3.3.1.1, and 'in 2024 field study' to section 3.3.2.1. If you have another suggestion, please feel free to present it.
In Table 3, there is a missing space between the value and the SE in T5.
line 548: delete comma "," after citation
line 560: Is the use of quotation marks necessary in this case? (MVF)
Ref 55, line 713: missing space
Author Response
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