Early Growth Stage Characterization and the Biochemical Responses for Salinity Stress in Tomato

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I have reviewed this manuscript in January. This revised version is improved a lot and made responses to most of my previous suggestions. I have no more comments.

Author Response

We thank you very much for your valuable comments and review. 

Reviewer 2 Report

thanks

Author Response

We thank you very much for your valuable comments and review. 

Reviewer 3 Report

In Introduction the authors should better describe the different factors that affects tomato quality and mention reated references such as: Durazzo et al. nfluence of different crop management practices on the nutritional properties and benefits of tomato -Lycopersicon esculentum cv Perfectpeel- International Journal of Food Science and Technology 45, 2637–2644. ISSN: 0950-5423, DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2621.2010.02439.x. The novelty character of paper should be better marked. Figure 1 should be better described in the text. The paragraph PCA for the salt tolerance indices should be implemented. Figure 4 should be better described in the text.

Author Response

First of all, we do want to thank the reviewer for your careful and very helpful comments. Our reply to your comments is given below.
Comments and Suggestions for Authors
In Introduction the authors should better describe the different factors that affect tomato quality and mention related references such as: Durazzo et al. influence of different crop management practices on the nutritional properties and benefits of tomato -Lycopersicon esculentum cv Perfectpeel- International Journal of Food Science and Technology 45, 2637–2644. ISSN: 0950-5423, DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2621.2010.02439.x. The novelty character of the paper should be better marked. Figure 1 should be better described in the text. The paragraph
PCA for the salt tolerance indices should be implemented. Figure 4 should be better described in the text.
 Answer: -The introduction is updated as per your suggestions with proper references (P-2, L66-68).
-As the paper focused on multivariate analysis for screening the Figure 1 was described briefly but all the data were clearly presented in supplementary table S2. Moreover, the correlation can also be derived from three-way biplot PCA analysis (Figure 2).
- Sorry! there was a mistake in the table and figure numbers which made it difficult to understand. We have corrected those (P-7, L-248, 270-271, 277). In PCA for the salt tolerance indices were also described and supported with supplementary table S5 and S6 along with Figure S4.
-Figure 4 is described more as per your suggestion. (P-8-9, L-297-308)