Seasonal Functional Partitioning of Carbohydrates and Proline among Plant Parts of the Sand Daffodil
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
clear, well-written text
a rich bibliography on the subject
I propose to change the first letters of the months to Arabic or Roman numerals - Table 1 and Figures 1, 2, 3
Comments on the methodology
1 - only one site from which the plants were harvested - what was the basis for selecting the site
2 - only 10 plants
3 - tests carried out in one season only
There are errors in commenting the results (marked in the text)
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1
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Reviewer 1: I propose to change the first letters of the months to Arabic or Roman numerals - Table 1 and Figures 1, 2, 3.
Response: The first letters of the months did change to Roman numerals in Table 1 and Figures 1, 2 and 3.
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Reviewer 1: - only one site from which the plants were harvested - what was the basis for selecting the site
Reviewer 1: - only 10 plants
Response: Pancratium maritimum grown on coastal, popular touristic areas in Greece is under particular threat and conservation measures are adopted very quickly by the Greek Ministry of Environment. Therefore, we ought to have an official permission in order to collect our monthly samples (maximum 10 plants), from the research site they pointed us, which does not belong to the Natura 2000 sites and is considered as a secondary-interesting touristic area. The above-mentioned aspect was written in the originally submitted text [see lines 73-74: “It is noteworthy that the number of replicates was were kept to a minimum due to the conservation status of P. maritimum”. Also, the floristic composition of the research site was hitherto unknown, and for this reason a secondary objective of the study was to provide an inventory for sea daffodil of this sandy beach.
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Reviewer 1: - tests carried out in one season only
Response: tests carried out during one year.
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Reviewer 1: There are errors in commenting the results (marked in the text)
Response:
line 121, it was corrected: …in July and August
line 122, it was corrected: …in expanded leaves from December to June
line 126, it was corrected: …in June, … in August
line 129, it was corrected: …from January to May
line 140, it was corrected: …in April and May
line 143, it was corrected: …from June to January
lines 158-159, it was corrected: …from September to May
line 165: “Although” was deleted
line 167: 10-fold was corrected to 6-fold
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
There are some tautology in the text (on my opinion) to be corrected:
16: the course of a year (a year is enough )
34: sand dune (dune...)
228: for a 3 month period (for 3 months..)
There are also some verb form to correct:
35: threaten populations to threatened populations
74: was kept to were kept
123: is associeted to are associeted
146: in petal were to in petal was
An adjectival form:
50: most rare to rarest
Few letters to add:
132: sugar conent to sugar content
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 2
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Reviewer 2: English language and style are fine/minor spell check required
Response: The required spell check of the text was performed and the minor mistakes were corrected.
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Reviewer 2: There are some tautology in the text (on my opinion) to be corrected:
16: the course of a year (a year is enough)
34: sand dune (dune...)
228: for a 3 month period (for 3 months)
There are also some verb form to correct:
35: threaten populations to threatened populations
74: was kept to were kept
123: is associated to are associated
146: in petal were to in petal was
An adjectival form:
50: most rare to rarest
Few letters to add:
132: sugar conent to sugar content
Response:
line 16, it was corrected: the year
line 34, it was corrected: dune...
line 228/new line 231, it was corrected: for 3 months...
line 35, it was corrected: threatened populations
line 74, it was corrected: …were kept
line 123/new line 124, it was not corrected, because the verb “is” is linked to … the lowering of the above mentioned values is associated…
line 146/ new line 150, it was not corrected, because the verb “were” is linked to …low values of starch content in petals were…
line 50, it was corrected: rarest
line 132/new line 133 it was corrected: content
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
