Multigene Phylogeny Reveals Endophytic Xylariales Novelties from Dendrobium Species from Southwestern China and Northern Thailand
, Mingkwan Doilom 4,5,6, Dinushani Anupama Daranagama 7 and Jichuan Kang 1,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
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Reviewer 2 Report
In the article entitled “Multigene phylogeny reveals endophytic Xylariales novelties from Dendrobium species from southwestern China and northern Thailand”, Xiao-Ya et.al investigated Xylariales-associated with endangered orchid Dendrobium- identifying several novel Xylariales species as endophytes from Dendrobium using a multigene approach. Authors resolved the taxonomy of novel strains using likelihood and Bayesian approaches. This study is an important contribution to the scientific community for a better understanding of the unknown Xylariales associated with Dendrobium.
I suggest authors rewrite the discussion part to make it reader-friendly. Please see my following suggestions.
Minor comments
Line 29 – Change “Two strains were only identified genus and family ….” to “Two strains were only identified at genus and family….”
Line 1036 – Check the font of species name.
Lines 1043 –Change to “sequence mixed environmental bulk samples…”
Line 1043 – “production of” is not appropriate here. Change “The production of tens of thousands genetic reads…” to “The collection of resulting set of tens of thousands genetic reads….”
Line 1047-1050 – Confusing sentence. Please check if the authors intend to use two sentences. Or consider rephrasing to “The fungal endophyte taxonomic position test of Dendrobium officinale implemented by high-throughput results (HTS) from ITS-rRNA metagenomics analysis showed a very low frequency which perhaps due to a limited number of primer pairs designed for all endophytes [111].
Line 1052 – Please clarify “separated genomic reads”
Lines 1060-1063 – Repetition of lines 1047-1050. Remove the sentence.
Line 1066 – Change “found” to “identified”
Lines 1067-1068 – Check the font.
Lines 1078 – Change to “For further understanding of xylarialean…”
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