Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage: A Sustainable Agricultural Practice to Improve Soil Quality and Crop Yields in China

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

This article aims to review the concept and research progress of DVRT, emphasizing its key role in promoting soil health and improving agricultural productivity.There are some issues with the manuscript, and it is recommended that the author carefully revise it.

1. The 70th line should be Fig.2，The 86th line should be Fig.2.

2.When abbreviations first appear in the text, they only need to have their full names. The full names are not required afterwards, for example, in lines 170 and 196, "deep vertical rotary tilt (DVRT)". Please have the author check the entire text.

3. The manuscript shows relatively little research progress on the introduction of vertical rotary tillage in Xinjiang. The problem of salinization in Xinjiang has its own characteristics, but the author seems to have some difficulty understanding it. It is suggested that the author supplement it.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The research mainly introduced the effect that Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage on soil properties, crop growth characteristics (including root systems and root systems) and water use efficiency and crop yields, but it lacks specific data analysis and reference support. As a tillage method, the author should determine the areas and soil types suitable for Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage. However, the differences of study areas and soil types are not involved in this paper.

In terms of the structure of the paper, firstly, the author should introduce the influence of Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage on crop roots, which affects the Water Use Efficiency and Photosynthesis, and ultimately the Yield.

Here are some specific suggestions:

1. In the abstract, it should be stated that Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage in soil properties, crop growth characteristics, water use efficiency, and crop yields have had an impact.

2. In lines 54-57, there is no reference support.

3. In the third paragraph of Introduction, the author only emphasized the influence of Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage on soil water, without other content mentioned in this paper.

4. In "2.1. The form of DVRT", the author introduced the advantages of the two machines, but there are no specific statistics. Has any relevant research been published?

5. This study discussed the improvement effect of Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage on soil properties and crop yield, but there was no specific data support. How much was increased? By how much? With which tillage methods were these conclusions compared?

6. In lines 73-84, the specific site and soil type were not specified.

7. In lines 101-108, what is the cause of salt land? What's the relationship with the last paragraph?

8. In Part 2.4, the reasons why Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage has an impact on Photosynthesis are not explained.

9. Combined with the Part 2.5, Water Use Efficiency should belong to "2.2. Soil Properties of DVRT".

10. In line 188, there's no punctuation.

11. The section "2.7. Others" has been introduced.

12. In the part of "3. Prospects", the shortcomings of Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage at present are not clear, and how to solve these problems concretely, this part lacks reference support.

13. The conclusions did not clearly express the specific advantages of Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage on soil properties and crop yield.

 

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Comments on the Quality of English Language

No.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The manuscript has the character of a study overview of the issue of deep vertical rotary tillage from the point of view of the effect on soil properties and the yield of several crops in China. For this reason, it can be suggested to accept the manuscript as a study overview of the chosen issue, not as a scientific article (statistical evaluation of the data is not given, statistical significance of the differences between the variants is not expressed).

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

I believe authors have made a lot of effort to revise the manuscript, current form of the manuscript can be accepted for publishing.

Comments on the Quality of English Language

English of manuscript could be improved.

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