Geraniol: A Potential Defense-Related Volatile in “Baiye No. 1” Induced by Colletotrichum camelliae
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript can be recommended for publication after the elimination of the following remarks:
1. It is required to arrange the manuscript in accordance with the requirements of the Journal with line numbering in template.
2. Please change the title of the manuscript, check the translation and put the cultivar name in quotation marks (‘Baiye 1’).
3. Remove the repeated word. “When a pathogen infects a plant, it releases volatiles that have an effect on other other organisms or differ from healthy plants [3-6]” and reformulate the sentence.
4. 2.4. Please decipher the abbreviations: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and throughout the text - decipher the abbreviations at the first mention in the text.
5. It is better to combine figures 3 and 4, separating them with letters and using one legend.
6. 3.4.3. Please rewrite “As shown in Figure 8, the results revealed that…”
7. 3.4.4. Please rewrite “POD and SOD are important defense enzymes in fungi. In this study, the POD and SOD activities were determined to determine the effect…”
8. Place figure titles strictly under fig. 9 and 10.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
Congratulation on our works. The procedure to identify the volatiles of tea trees infected by C. camelliae was correctly conducted. In addition, further study to identify the main volatile and its effect on morphology and enzyme activity increased the value of your research.
thanks for providing such results and expanding the knowledge of microbe-plant interaction.
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Reviewer 3 Report
Comments to the Authors
Manuscript ID: agriculture-2063238
Manuscript Title: Geraniol: A Potential Defense-related Volatile in Baiye No. 1 Induced by Colletotrichum camelliae
This manuscript entitled "Geraniol: A Potential Defense-related Volatile in Baiye No. 1 Induced by Colletotrichum camelliae" is assigned to important agricultural problem in terms of biotic stress. Roles of secondary metabolites in plant defense against abiotic and biotic factors were reported many times. Volatiles, in this study, display strong defence to Colletotrichum camelliae stress. Abstract is sufficiently informative; the Introduction part state the scientific problem clearly. The data are reliable. The results are interesting, which provides valuable information about the mode of action of the geraniol on Colletotrichum camelliae stress. However, there are minor issues in the manuscript that need to be addressed.
- “Colletotrichum camelliae” is the systematic name of pathogenic fungi. Therefore, it should be written italic especially in subtitles.
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