Broadcasting Winter Wheat Can Increase Grain Yield without Reducing the Kernels per Spike and the Kernel Weight

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The work is interesting but have same very important lacks and mistakes:
- this type of studies requires more research (at least 3 vegetation seasons),

- Authors do not cite works on similar problems from Europe where are similar climatic conditions, regarding e.g. soil water content, soil density, winter wheat yield and components ect.
- lack of detailed meteorological data from experimental years
- no determination of the granulometric composition of soils (partical size distribution) on which experiments were conducted
- no description of the winter wheat variety that was used in the experiment
- the work would be more valuable if the Authors gave the dates of the wheat growth phases (BBCH)
- uniform units accordance to those generally accepted in the world, e.g. N kg ha^-1, etc.( At all work, replace units according to the International System of Units (SI), e.g.

kg.ha^-1 or  t.ha^-1 for e.g. Linea 22  was:  ...................  7599.0 kg·hm-2 and 9763.3 kg·hm-2,

please change unit  .........7599.0 kg.ha^-1 and 9763.3 kg.ha^-1

- lack of methodology in the abstract which is required by journal

- references must be numbered in order of appearance in the text (including table captions and figure legends) and listed individually at the end of the manuscript

-in the text, reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [1], [1–3] or [1,3]

1. Njoroge, S.; Schut, A.G.T.; Giller, K.E.; Zingore, S. Strong spatial-temporal patterns in maize yield response to nutrient additions in African smallholder farms. Field Crop. Res. 2017, 214, 321–330.

2. Ojeniyi, S.O.; Kayode, G.O. Response of maize to copper and sulfur in tropical regions. J. Agric. Sci. Camb.1993, 120, 295–299.

- include the digital object identifier (DOI) for all references where available,

- the tables are made carelessly and contain numerous errors.

Authors have errors in (L Ruler)
L- 5 the third name is to be from the capital letter Chen
L-32 Broadcasting sowing is supposed to be from the lowercase 'broadcasting sowing'
L – 57 is Li and Garo, it's supposed to be Li & Garo please take this into account throughout the manuscript

L -213 after table 2 we write with a capital letter, Table2. The growing and …..

Author Response

Dear Ms or Mr

Thank you very much for your very helpful suggestion.

I have made the modification according to advising.

Thanks again for your hard work.

Best regard

Wu in Tarim University

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

Generally, I mean there are unnecessarily a lot of references used in the manuscript and moreover, their list is not OK.

line 104: 0,3 hm²

Line 154: areas

line 167: areas

line 232: The + more detailed description would be useful

line 234: Figure 2 is not mentioned in the text

line 258: the highest

line 264: differences

line 265: the highest

line 272: the lowest

line 282: discussion is n. 4 - I mean

line 346: horizontal extended

line 354: delete bracket 

line 461: in this experiment

- the references highlighted in the text are missing in the references list

- the references highlighted in the references list are missing in the text

- some shortcomings in an alphabetical order of references (15,49,81,82)

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Ms or Mr

Thank you very much for the advise, we have made the modification according to you suggestion.

thanks again for your hard work.

Best regard

Wu in Tarim University

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I am satisfied with the amendments