Effect of Soil Aeration and Root Morphology on Yield under Aerated Irrigation
, Jian Chen 1, Zheyuan Xiao 1, Shah Jahan Leghari 2, Tianyou Yuan 3 and Hongwei Pan 1
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript titled “Relationships between Soil Aeration and Root Morphology in Response to Cucumber Yield under Aerated Conditions”, which is authored by Jin et al. Therefore, the manuscript will be of interest to its readers. However, to further improve its quality, I have suggested some modifications in the manuscript as below:
1. There are several English language and grammatical mistakes in the manuscript, which must be corrected before publication.
2. Please clearly mention the hypothesis of this study.
3. In Table 1 authors mentioned that the soil texture is clay loam and the bulk density in depth 40-60 is 1.79 g.cm-3. Could you explain that?
4. Authors didn’t mention about irrigation water quality and it could effect on root growth and soil salinity!
5. Lines 138-146 did not attach the root analysis images.
6. It would be better if figure 1 make it in separate figures.
7. Figure 3 and 4, please write dawn what does A0, A1, A2 stand for?
8. Line 330 mentioned that the highest yield was 53.04 tons / ha and it shows in Table 6 not in table 4.
9. Authors didn’t mention table 6 in the text!
10. Line 337-338, what does RMB stand for?
11. Please improve conclusion section.
12. Double check the citations and their references in the list.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Relationships between Soil Aeration and Root Morphology in Response to Cucumber Yield under Aerated Conditions
1. Figure 1. Line 90-92. Why there was an increase in humidity and a decrease in temperature in the second half of the experiment? How to estimate the humidity of 80-100% at the end of the experiment?
2. Table 1 Basic physical and chemical properties of the test soil. Very high rate Bulk density for clay loam soil. Did it affect the root system of the cucumber? What was the structure of the soil? Did you do any mechanical treatment of the soil?
3. Figure 3 and 4. Figure captions. We need to give a transcript A0, A1, A2.
4. Have you done a statistical treatment between soil moisture and respiration?
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Reviewer 3 Report
Dear Authors,
I am honored to be selected as the Reviewer of the manuscript entitled: Relationships between Soil Aeration and Root Morphology in 2 Response to Cucumber Yield under Aerated Conditions
The aim of the research presented in this manuscript was to clarify the suitable aerated volume for cucumber growthï¼›and analyze the coupling relationship between soil aeration index, root morphology, and 77 yield under different gas intakes clarified the key indicators to promote yield growth.
The Authors undertook research that is of great importance in the development of sustainable agriculture. The results they obtained indicate the possibility of increasing Cucumber productivity while reducing production costs. I have no doubt that the results presented by the Authors of the manuscript deserve to be published.
Abstract
1) Check the mg/L unit, it is not in accordance with the SI;
2) What is the working hypothesis?
Keywords
1) Put in alphabetical order
2) Change the terms that are the same in the title.
Introduction
1) See the journal's rules, there are wrong citations (line44).
2) Why did you use the cumcuber?
3) What is the working hypothesis?
Materials and Methods
1) Line 95 – Check these values 0 to 60 cm
3. Results
I suggest checking the data analysis in figure 3;
Figure 4 perform test comparing means
Figure 6, collected data or transformed data were used, as everything is giving very high correlation.
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Reviewer 4 Report
The manuscript is interesting and is within scope of Agronomy. It has no conditions to be accepted for publication in the current form, but detailed comments were realized along the manuscript.
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
Dear,
The authors answered the points that were questioned.
Therefore, I suggest accepting the article.
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Dear reviewer, thank you for providing constructive comments and suggestions.
Reviewer 4 Report
The manuscript may be accepted for publication after minor revision. Please, check carefully the manuscript regarding the sentence construction and spelling.
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