Identification of Superior Soybean Cultivars through the Indication of Specific Adaptabilities within Duo-Environments for Year-Round Soybean Production in Northeast Thailand

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Overall, it is a well-written article. There are a few minor corrections (see attached file).

In the future you could consider:

1. Calculating protein content, since it could affect your decision (apart from yield).
2. Following alternative evaluation methods, eg. Honeycomb design (extensively reviewed by Tokatlidis, IS)

Comments for author File: Comments.PDF

Author Response

Dear reviewer 1

Every comments and suggestions of reviewer-1 are fixed in revision manuscript.

Best regards 

Sompong Chankaew

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

In the manuscript entitled; “Identification of superior soybean cultivars through the indication of specific adaptabilities within due environments for year-round soybean production in Northeast Thailand”, the authors did focus on the yield variance of several soybean lines in distinctive types of environment in Thailand. I have few points on minor modification which I believe are going to improve quality of your manuscript:

• On the table 1, the author should mention about breeding lines. Cross line? Genetic resources? Or mutant? It need to explain more information in table 1 or materials.
• Table 2, in grain yield, need to add statistical differentiation, such as Duncan etc..
• Table 2, it is confused to understand what is standard to separate distinctive features of each environment type. For example, group with ENV1, ENV2,ENV3 have the same growing season, soil type and only was separated by rainy days, in which it seem ENV5, EN6, ENV7 was separated merely by soil type.
• Explanation for table 3 is quite simple and not support clearly for the content of the table. It is quite hard to understand what is supporting mean of significant difference symbol single * which is attached beside average value of each trait based on environment or genotype. And I also could not understand how to calculate value of GxE
• In general, interaction between environment and yield is actually depended on quantitative traits. In the result and discussion, authors almost focus the yield, growth period (affect maturity period, rotation crop and storage matter). I think author should supply comparison and inference from yield component to strengthen the major content with yield variance.
• Line 200, “table 20” word is incorrect

Author Response

Dear reviewer-2

Every comments and suggestions of  reviewer-2 are fixed in revision manuscript.

Best regards 

Sompong Chankaew

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The article could be published in this revised form.