Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Dear authors

I appreciate your work and idea of agro-homoeopathy and its implementation in plant protection. Therefore, the idea of determining the effect of nosodes against pests and also on membrane selectivity index and yield is very good. However, your work is in great need of improvement, especially in the materials and methods and results sections. Therefore my decision is to reject the manuscript. However, i strongly suggest to you to improve the manuscript and re-submit it again. I have highlighted all my suggestions for improvement in the attached file.
Kind regards

 

 

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

This is an interesting paper in which the authors present the results of investigation of foliar application of homeopathic substances against two insect pests. The paper has almost all parts, important for scientific paper. I miss only the chemical structure of homeopathic substances used, what is necessary in all scientific works. 

I also have some other comments; 

p. 2, line 60: when an organism is first mentioned in the text, it should be written with full Latin name. This should be taken into account throughout all paper! The beginning of the same line is also strange! Can you please make a better sentence? What is the meaning of CH?

p. 2, lines 87-90: I suggest to cite some more papers about the meaning of sentence (for example: ROJHT et al., 2012. Chemical analysis of three herbal extracts and observation of their activity against adults of Acanthoscelides obtectus and Leptinotarsa decemlineata using a video tracking system. Journal of plant diseases and protection, 119, 2:59-67.

p. 3, line 105: Are the authors sure about the member(s) of Thrips genus? If no, I suggest to replase "Thrips sp." with "Thysanoptera".

p. 3, line 105-109: please, use the right common names of pests mentioned

p. 3, line 115: What is the meaning of C?

p. 3, line 124: so the mixture of nosodes of all organisms were used and no the nosodes from single organisms?

p. 3, line 126: please add the producer and supplier of the variety.

 

General comment: in its present form I suggest major revision of the paper. If the authors will improve the paper according my comments and add the data of chemical analysis of the nosodes used, I suggest to publish a paper. 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

This manuscript is well prepared, with only a few questions that need explanation.

What is the sex of the five weevils?

What are the special requirements for storing nosode preparations to maintain their stability and potency?

What changes are there in the nutritional value of nosode-processed Phaseolus vulgaris?

How is the effect of nosodes on plant yield and biomass related to plant stress tolerance in research?

How can nosode treatment be used to increase crop yield in actual agricultural production?

How can the suitability of nosode formulations be determined for specific crops?

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Dear Authors

you significantly improved the manuscript by providing more details on methodology. I found just some small details that should be additionally clarified. Please find comments in the attached document.

Kind regards

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The authors took into consideration almost all of my comments and remarks. I am still not satisfied with writing the Latin names of organisms and their common names. Between lines 122 and 126 are still many unsuitable common names of organisms. Please check their suitability for pests in https://www.entsoc.org/publications/common-names and for diseases in other web pages or scientific papers. Only first two words in the Latin name should be written in italic; the author of the species should be written with normal letters. After the authors will correct the names, the paper will be suitable for publication.

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