The Potential and Green Chemistry Attributes of Biopesticides for Sustainable Agriculture
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Author Response
Thank you so much for your comments. See attached document for the comment raised.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The review titled "Green Chemistry attributes of biopesticides and their potential for sustainable agriculture" by Emmanuel O. Fenibo et al. aimed to discuss biopesticides and their potential in sustaiable agriculture. Under the contex of increasing demand for food produced by agriculture, this reivew is interesting and uptodate. I have several suggestions before publish of this review.
The organization and structure of the review. The whole review is supper long with prolonged reference lists, which made the review lost its direction in some paragraphs. I suggest the authors to used sub-head line in the introduction, which will be in corresponding to the folowing headlines. Presently, it is difficult to see connections and correlations among all headlines.
Moreover, for a review, is introduction necessary? If yes, but there is no more section corresponding to it. The same for conclusion. Part 1 and 9 seems wierd comparing with 2-8.
There should be more clear figures showing both the data and the mechanisms of the present topic. In addition, I feel some of the discussion could be removed or shortened, to obtain a much more clear order of review.
The language could and should be improved further, please avoid using too long sentences, and pay attention to connections and logistic transitions among different sentences.
The conclusion is not actually conclusion. Please focus on concluding when wiriting conclusions of the review. Presently, almost all of this paragraph has nothing to do with conclusion.
Please revise the title if possible, since the present review is a little far away from the title.
Please remove some of the citations if there are some not necessary.
Author Response
Thanks for your comments. See attached document for my response.
Thanks
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Reviewer 3 Report
This is a very comprehensive review. It covers almost everything including but not limited to biopesticides. It is more like a textbook. Though some parts of biopesticides are not in-depth enough, this is a good introduction of the history and general progress of biopesticides. Altogether, the manuscript is informative and good.
Lines 293, two sentences of "Table 1 shows ..., " are redundant.
Lines 298-303 can be deleted. The link between those words and "Pesticides are defined broadly as... " are weak.
section 3 is not necessary here. If there is a limitation of paper length, I suggest deleting them. If not, keep them.
Line 262, Lissorhoptrus oryzophilus should be italic.
Line 324, Triazoles are known for antifungal properties rather than killing insects in my knowledge.
Figure 3, the order of texts had better be unified.
Line 553, " are less harmful than the [193]," something is missing.
I am wondering the components of nanoparticles. How different are they from Micro-plastic granules? Will they be a source of "micro" pollution.
Line 898, was this manuscript previously submitted to a journal "Agronomy"? Please change it to the current one.
Some formats of references such as italic of Latin names should be double checked.
Author Response
See attached document for our response to your query.
Thanks
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript has been revised based on the comments.
