Bioactive Components of Pomegranate Oil and Their Influence on Mycotoxin Secretion
, Hatem Salama Ali 2,3,*, Adel Gabr Abdel-Razek 4, Mohamed Gamal Shehata 5 and Najla A. Albaridi 6Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors presented a very interesting topic and presented the results very well. But, I doubt that you introduced and discussed the results very well. Please revise according to the comments in the PDF version attached.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
- For Reviewer 1 comments:
- Extensive editing of English and style.
Response: The authors review the manuscript and change, correct the mistakes that displayed.
- The introduction must be improved?
Response: The authors reviewed the introduction and make the changes as requested in the attached PDF file.
- The conclusion needs some improvements.
Response: the conclusion was rewritten again to be as good as requested.
- A discussion needs more enhancement.
Response: the changes were done to enhance the discussion as it was declared in the PDF file attached.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
I found this submission as a very interesting one.
The language has minor typing mistakes, but I am not an English native speaking person to judge it.
Overall, I have a major comment, and a few minor ones:
Major: authors mention antymycotoxin secreting activity, but have not measured fungal growth. So, I cannot judge if the oil acted by inhibiting fungal growth, or acted by inhibiting mycotoxin secretion. By measuring the ratio mycotoxin / fungal biomass, one may conclude if there is inhibition, or even stimulation of mycotoxins.
Authors should consider this comment in a possible revised version.
Minor: authors used data with a lot of significant digits. For instance, in line 109 they reported 66.03 %; how are you so sure it is 66.03 %, and not just 66 %?
Use an appropriate abbreviation for zearalenone. ZN is not a common one.
Author Response
Response for the comments of the reviewer 2
- Minor English revision.
the Response: Authors have reviewed the manuscript and correct the discovered mistakes.
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Major: authors mention antimycotoxin secreting activity, but have not measured fungal growth.
Authors should consider this comment in a possible revised version.
The response: this part of the study was corrected and was added as
" It is worth mentioning that; inhibition ratios of the fungal mycelial-growth for some strains that counted as mycotoxin-producers were recorded at 17.4%, 12.1%, and 25.6% for A.flavus ITEM 698, A. parasiticus ITEM 11, and F. culmorum KF 846, respectively."
- Minor: authors used data with a lot of significant digits. For instance, in line 109 they reported 66.03 %; how are you so sure it is 66.03%, and not just 66 %?
The response: these results recorded as a calculation ratio, and in the correction step it was approximated as it was requested.
- Use an appropriate abbreviation for zearalenone. ZN is not a common one.
The response: this abbreviation was corrected to be ZEA instead of ZN.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
All comments and suggestions have been addressed.
Reviewer 2 Report
Authors have answered my comments.
