Peer-Review Record
Diversity of Tartary Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) Landraces from Liangshan, Southwest China: Evidence from Morphology and SSR Markers
Agronomy 2022, 12(5), 1022; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12051022
by
Yingjie Song 1
, Zhuo Cheng 1, Yumei Dong 2, Dongmei Liu 3, Keyu Bai 4,5, Devra Jarvis 6,7,8,*, Jinchao Feng 1,* and Chunlin Long 1,9,*
, Zhuo Cheng 1, Yumei Dong 2, Dongmei Liu 3, Keyu Bai 4,5, Devra Jarvis 6,7,8,*, Jinchao Feng 1,* and Chunlin Long 1,9,*Reviewer 1:
Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Anonymous
Agronomy 2022, 12(5), 1022; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12051022
Submission received: 16 February 2022
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Revised: 13 April 2022
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Accepted: 19 April 2022
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Published: 24 April 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Crop Breeding and Genetics)
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I read with interest the manuscript entitled 'Diversity of Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) landraces from Liangshan, Southwest China: Evidences from morphology and SSR markers' and have few notes that authors should improve.
- Please check if references are according with Journal standard
- some important works are not mentioned such as Hunt et al. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (2018) 27:493–506
- In methods it should be explained in which bases the 112 acessions where chose
- Please explain on bellow table 1 what means 1, 2, 3, 4, till 8 - authors have 2x (1) and 2x (2) - Its confusing
- In PCA figure should be colored accordingly with the results obtained in the phylogenetic tree by clusters and vice-versa.
Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
Authors present a paper, which estimates genetic and morphological diversity of Tartary buckwheat landraces from China. Overall study design. methodology and description is sufficient, however there are some areas that need to be improved.
- There is no description of how association analysis between SSR loci and morphological traits was performed - this needs to be added into materials and methods section. The results of this analysis state that 30 loci associated with morphological traits were found, however table 4 lists only 10 markers consistent with SSR primers.
- Authors write "that the genetic distance and geographical distance between BG 374 and WR were 0.051 and 130 km, respectively, which was no positive correlation", but they did not perform any statistical test to check for correlation between genetic and geographical distances. Authors should consider performing Mantel test, or similar to validate this.
- Components of Figure 1 have much too small labels, which makes them difficult to read. It should be broken into separate figures with enlarged labels.
- English should be significantly improved, as there are some grammar and stylistic errors present.
Author Response
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