Isolation, Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of Stagonospora tainanensis, the Pathogen Causing Sugarcane Leaf Blight in China

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript ‘Isolation and characterization of Stagonospora tainanensis, the  pathogen causing sugarcane leaf blight in China’ reports an interesting work. Some points need to be improved:

-        Title can be improved and should reflect more the importance of morphological and molecular identification.

-        The abstract should initiate by sentence of introduction and finish by conclusion, L13-14: please re-write the sentence;

-        L14: remove ‘of’

-        In all the manuscript English need to be improved

-        The morphological identification size of conidia... need to be mentioned in the abstract, it is the main result of the manuscript

-        In the introduction please highlighted more the importance of this disease (e.g., the loss caused by this pathogen)

-        Material and methods: I suggest the authors to move ‘Characterization of in vitro cultural conditions’ at the beginning right after ‘Field survey’ because it get confuse how you search for the condition of isolation, then directly in M&M the reader found the optimal condition in ‘pathogen isolation and verification’ the same in ‘Morphological studies’

-        Please change ‘Morphological studies’ by ‘Morphological identification’

-        Table 1 the caption need to be more developed

-        The caption of the figure need to be just after the photo

-        Figure 4 b the title need to be improved: you should use the term ‘ooze’ more correctly

-        Statistical part: please mention the test post hoc used to separate means it is very important and did you use standard deviation or standard error? Also mention these information’s in the caption of the figure.

-        The same for table 2 you should explain ‘±’

-        In the conclusion, we must not repeat the results, we must interpret the main results and conclude

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Reviewer 2 Report

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