Effects of Different Irrigation Modes on the Growth, Physiology, Farmland Microclimate Characteristics, and Yield of Cotton in an Oasis

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Your work is interested, written well, and organized. This manuscript reports on a study of the effects of different irrigation modes on the growth, physiology, yield of cotton and farmland microclimate characteristics in an oasis. The study design meets the general standards and from what I can judge the data is being collected and analyzed appropriately. This work is an unpublished manuscript with relevant information that should be made public in a scientific journal for discussion among scientists working in the field.

However, there are some comments should be considered before publishing, in this way, the social and scientific relevance of the manuscript would be improved:

Discussion

Line 399: I continue to add a paragraph that summarizes the importance, usefulness and social relevance, contemporary of the study, specifically pointing out the Impact, Benefit and Projection, something like this (for example):

In order to save water and optimize agronomic aspects, modifications have been introduced that improve the production of perennial tropical crops [43]. Nowadays, for the irrigation of cotton, banana and other crops they mainly use sprinkler (under foliage) and drip irrigation, with respect to the latter, there are crops such as bananas that grow in an inconsistent and random way deviating from the original planting line, after several years the plants will no longer be aligned with the drip line, reducing irrigation efficiency. Additionally, drip irrigation in tropical territories turned out to be an irrigation method that saves water and reduces runoff, allowing water to trickle slowly towards plant roots and improve productivity under certain physical or morphological soil properties [44, 45].

References

I suggest adding recent references which address the issue in question in Latin American territories. I suggest incorporating the new recommended references in the discussion section, that would improve the scientific quality of the candidate manuscript. Suggested citations are for genuine scientific reasons that emphasize the current topic of study in context:

 

[43] Campos, B.; Paredes, F.; Rey, J.; Lobo, D.; Galvis-Causil, S. The relationship between the normalized difference vegetation index, rainfall, and potential evapotranspiration in a banana plantation of Venezuela, STJSSA. 2021, 18(1), 58-64, http://dx.doi.org/10.20961/stjssa.v18i1.50379

[44] Himanshu, S. K.; Srinivasulu, A.; James, P.; Bordovsky, J. K.; Sayantan, N.O; and Barnes, EM. Assessing the impacts of irrigation termination periods on cotton productivity under strategic deficit irrigation regimes. Scientific reports. 2021, 11, 1, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-020-00317-8.

[45] Olivares, B.O.; Calero, J.; Rey, J.C.; Lobo, D.; Landa, B.B.; Gómez, J.A. Correlation of banana productivity levels and soil morphological properties using regularized optimal scaling regression. Catena. 2022, 208: 105718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105718

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Reviewer 2 Report

Regarding the manuscript entitled  Effects of different irrigation modes on the growth, physiology, yield of cotton and farmland microclimate characteristics in an oasis, authors showed the effects of different irrigation methods on cotton physiological and growth indexes, yield and farmland microclimate, thus providing valuable information to boost yields while selecting appropriate irrigation techniques in similar areas.  

I think this is a useful article and I think it makes a potent scientific contribution in a reference for cotton drip irrigation in similar arid areas representing this automatic irrigation strategy means significant advantages in water-saving and yield increase. I would recommend the manuscript for minor revision.

Just minor points,
The introduction must be improved by incorporating more recent references including an important textile material of cotton on economic crops in China. 
In conclusion, please should be strengthened the contents detailed should be addressed including future scope and applications in the automatic drip irrigation technology for potent way to regulate cotton growth physiological index and farm land microclimate index. 

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