Effect of Water Stress and Rehydration on the Cluster and Fruit Quality of Greenhouse Tomatoes
, Pedro Castro-Valdecantos 1, Luis Andreu 1,2, Alfonso Moriana 1,2 and MarÃa José MartÃn-Palomo 1,2Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Introduction
The logic of expression needs to be improved. What’s the difference between present paper and previous report? In other word, what’s the shortcomings of the previous report? What specific work will you do to address these defects?
Materials and Methods
Well
Results
This part should be divided into several sections according to different indicators.
Figure 2, Figure 5, Figure 8, What does "+" in the figure mean?
Discussion
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References
Please check item by item and need to be improved.
Author Response
Thank you very much for reviewing the manuscript, we would like to thank you for your time and dedication. We think the manuscript has improved with your review. We reply your comments one by one.
Introduction
The logic of expression needs to be improved. What’s the difference between present paper and previous report? In other word, what’s the shortcomings of the previous report? What specific work will you do to address these defects?
We have included at the end of the introduction several sentences where we summarized the main contributions that this work could do, according to the limitations of previous work.
Materials and Methods
Well
Thank you
Results
This part should be divided into several sections according to different indicators.
We have included three different sections: “Water relations”, “Plant and fruit development” and “Quantity and quality yield response”
Figure 2, Figure 5, Figure 8, What does "+" in the figure mean?
They mean significant differences due to cultivars. We have changed the captions of the figure.
Discussion
Well
Thank you
References
Please check item by item and need to be improved.
we have done it, thank you very much
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript presents very interesting and useful results on the effect of water stress and rehydration during tomato cluster development. However, several issues need to be improved.
The numerical data should be added to the Abstract.
The novelty should be indicated in more detail in the Abstract and Introduction.
Newer references from recent years should be added to the Introduction and Discussion.
line 79: What is 'Fitó'?
line 165: How the assumptions were tested?
Directions for further research should be indicated in detail in the Discussion.
Author Response
Thank you very much for reviewing the manuscript, we would like to thank you for your time and dedication. We think the manuscript has improved with your review. We reply your comments one by one.
The numerical data should be added to the Abstract.
We have included numerical data in the abstract about the reduction in plant height and fruit number and size.
The novelty should be indicated in more detail in the Abstract and Introduction.
We have included a sentence in the abstract (due to the limited space) and a paragraph at the end of the Introduction section.
Newer references from recent years should be added to the Introduction and Discussion.
We have included 6 newer references in the introduction and discussion
line 79: What is 'Fitó'?
“Fito” is a company which market with seeds of different crops.
line 165: How the assumptions were tested?
Sorry for the mistake. We change it for:
Data normality has been verified with the Shapiro-Wilks test and homoscedasticity with Bartlett test. Data independence was assumed by experimental design and data collection.
Directions for further research should be indicated in detail in the Discussion.
Several directions for further works have beed suggested at the discussion.
Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript entitled “Effect of water stress and rehydration on the cluster and fruit quality in greenhouse tomatoes" submitted by Munia et al., demonstrated the impact of drought and rewatering (recovery) on the development of tomatoes cluster and production/ quality during different growing periods/ seasons. The experiment is well designed and presented, research findings are significant for agroformers. The MS is acceptable after major revision.
The specific comments/ suggestions are as stated below:
Line 16: What is the severe stress soil moisture %, better to mention stress level, as 45% of field capacity or soil moisture etc….
Line 17: What is the plant growth age, plz mention, like ??? days after planting
Line 17: Plant height was significantly affected (?), please mention percentage value for more clarity
Line 19: …………..at the end of the experiment (?? days please)
Line 21: How to know the % of reduction of number and fruit size? Please mention clearly for readers
Line 22: Response of cherry cultivars was similar??
What is the drought and rehydration period, please mention separately
Please mention the key message in the end of abstract
Line 29: …. specie??
Line 28-69: Please improve the language of Intro section
Line 83-84: Please correct the units
Line 135-153: Please improve this para. Please mention the PPFD, CO2 level (ppm), leaf temp and time during photosynthesis observation.
Line 167: Please delete ‘The number of samples measured is indicated in the text and Figures’
Figure 2: Please revise the figure caption and shift the control and stress marks inside the both figures, not in the figure caption. Plz follow same trend for all figures
Line 214-218: Please revise table caption. Add % gain or loss values as compare to control for all cultivars. Non-water stress means recovery period? Pls write as recovery or rehydration period, not indicate by different colors, if possible
Please check the language of the result section carefully.
Line 402-488: Please restructure the discussion section
Line 489: please mention future recommendations
Author Response
Thank you very much for reviewing the manuscript, we would like to thank you for your time and dedication. We think the manuscript has improved with your review. We reply your comments one by one.
Line 16: What is the severe stress soil moisture %, better to mention stress level, as 45% of field capacity or soil moisture etc….
Included. Stress plant were no irrigated during this period
Line 17: What is the plant growth age, plz mention, like ??? days after planting
Included
Line 17: Plant height was significantly affected (?), please mention percentage value for more clarity
Percentage of reduction was included
Line 19: …………..at the end of the experiment (?? days please)
Included
Line 21: How to know the % of reduction of number and fruit size? Please mention clearly for readers
Included
Line 22: Response of cherry cultivars was similar??
We have changed this sentence
What is the drought and rehydration period, please mention separately
We have rewritten this senteces and also clarify the Sttess treatment
Please mention the key message in the end of abstract
Included
Line 29: …. specie??
It is tomato, we have written it.
Line 28-69: Please improve the language of Intro section
The English have been revised in all the document.
Line 83-84: Please correct the units
Corrected, thank you
Line 135-153: Please improve this para. Please mention the PPFD, CO2 level (ppm), leaf temp and time during photosynthesis observation.
We have included the conditions of Pn measurements
Line 167: Please delete ‘The number of samples measured is indicated in the text and Figures’
Deleted
Figure 2: Please revise the figure caption and shift the control and stress marks inside the both figures, not in the figure caption. Plz follow same trend for all figures
Changed all of them
Line 214-218: Please revise table caption. Add % gain or loss values as compare to control for all cultivars. Non-water stress means recovery period? Pls write as recovery or rehydration period, not indicate by different colors, if possible
Revised
Please check the language of the result section carefully.
The English have been revised in all the document.
Line 402-488: Please restructure the discussion section
We have rewritten part of the discussion and reorder the section
Line 489: please mention future recommendations
Included
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
All my comments have been considered and the manuscript has been improved.
Reviewer 3 Report
The authors incorporated all corrections very nicely. No further corrections are required. The article is acceptable for publication.
