Effect of Different Levels of Zinc and Compost on Yield and Yield Components of Wheat

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is well written but it lacks novelty. Adding compost or Zn which is a micronutrient will improve wheat yields is common knowledge. You need to find a different approach on this matter or add some modeling part…but still, with only this, there is no novelty.

In the equation try to replace "row-row (m) distance) with "distance within a row (m)" the hyphen looks like a minus sign.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

All the suggestions are now incorporated into the manuscript.

Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

1.      There is relatively little information in the introduction on how Zn affects the growth and yield components of wheat.

2.      The methods not described adequately - Chapter 2.5. Treatment Plan - it is better to present it in the form of a table because it is difficult to understand the explanation of the analyzed variants.

3.      It is not explained what compost was used. 4.      References are made to the soil characteristics. Are they not indicators of the specific soil?

5.      The results are not presented clearly. The text in the results section duplicates the information displayed in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. It is necessary to explain only the most important differences.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

All the suggestions are now incorporated into the manuscript.

Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors,

Thank you for the opportunity to meet the manuscript entitled: "Effect of different levels of zinc and compost on yield and yield components of wheat". The application of zinc in agriculture is currently receiving a lot of attention due to its beneficial effects. In addition, in combination with compost, its benefits can be even higher. For this reason, I evaluate the focus of the experiment positively.

However, I have a few comments and recommendations on the development and concrete procedures:

1. Zinc plays an important role in the physiological and biochemical processes of plants. From this point of view, the authors missed the opportunity to examine the effect of zinc on the above parameters. At present, such research is more than desirable. I consider this to be a flaw of this research.

2. In addition, I consider the length of the experiment to be a serious flaw. For similar experiments, a minimum of two years is required.

3. Chapter Material and Methods (MM) is insufficiently processed. In some cases the information needs to be clarified, in some cases, the information is completely missing.

Detailed comments are marked directly in the text (see attachment).

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

All the suggestions are now incorporated into the manuscript.

Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors, you have done tremendous work. A lot has been done. However, I am still not convinced about the novelty. Buying and using commercial compost and mixing it with Zn gives the highest yields. That’s the conclusion, the highest rate of commercial compost and Zn give the highest yields. Novelty is very weak.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer

I have attached the response sheet for comments.

Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors,

thanks for editing the manuscript based on my comments. I believe that this has increased its quality. I currently consider the article to be well prepared.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer 

Thank you so much for your kind consideration.

Regards

Author Response File: Author Response.docx