Effects of Exogenous Abscisic Acid on the Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Camellia oleifera Seedlings under Drought Stress

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

My comments are in the attached file.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to you for your insightful and constructive feedback on our manuscript titled "[Effects of Exogenous Abscisic Acid on the Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Camellia oleifera Seedlings under Drought Stress]."Please find the detailed responses below and the corresponding revisions changes in the re-submitted files.

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Reviewer 2 Report

This paper is looking good but I suggest me further corrections to make this paper more attractive to reader.

In abstract section write percentages of all your increasing parameters on most effective treatment?

Why authors used this treatment instead of other's Harmon's that could produce more better results? Explain.

Key words are too simples. Please add more key words to this section.

Line 17:write family name of given plant here.

Please avoid repetitions of Camellia olifera.

Figure 1: please check lettering there is confusion about them.why authors used Capital and small letters together. Please correct it and use only small letters.

Please correct all lettering of graphs to make consistent. Can author provide statistical analysis raw data?

Please give both axis title in all graphs. Vertical axis title should be full name with unite. Please avoid to use abbreviation form.

Figure 4: why lettering is missing? Please all graphs should contain proper lettering.

I saw many references are old. Please add l

atest one.

English editing is needed 

Author Response

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to you for your insightful and constructive feedback on our manuscript titled "[Effects of Exogenous Abscisic Acid on the Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Camellia oleifera Seedlings under Drought Stress]."Please find the detailed responses below and the corresponding revisions changes in the re-submitted files.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

The study received for review is focused on the effect of exogenously applied abscisic acid on the physiological, biochemical and molecular response of Camellia oleifera to drought stress. Extensive research on many different aspects was presented, which allows the authors to comprehensively assess the analysed relationships. However, some minor errors and inaccuracies were detected and should be corrected before printing the manuscript:

1.     In the title of the work, the second part of the Latin species name should be written in lower case.

2.     References to cited works should be placed after the authors' names, not at the end of the sentence. Therefore, it is necessary to quote [11] from line 47 to 44, and [12] from 50 to 48.

3.     There is no need to repeat the full species name of Camellia oleifera multiple times. Just do it the first time and then you can use the shortcut: C. oleifera.

4.     In the CO2 formula (line 80), the “two” should be subscripted.

5.     Descriptions of tables and figures should be understandable without referring to the text of the work, therefore the abbreviations included there should be explained again, independently of the rest of the manuscript.

6.     I don't understand why the work [20] is quoted using the name and surname of only the first author (line 280)?

Author Response

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to you for your insightful and constructive feedback on our manuscript titled "[Effects of Exogenous Abscisic Acid on the Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Camellia oleifera Seedlings under Drought Stress]."Please find the detailed responses below and the corresponding revisions changes in the re-submitted files.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Accept in current form

Minor editing of English language required