Evaluation of Five Asian Lily Cultivars in Chongqing Province China and Effects of Exogenous Substances on the Heat Resistance
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsA brief summary
The work is devoted to the selection of lily varieties suitable for indoor or garden planting in spring and fall seasons in Chongqing Province, China. Until now, no data on relevant research on the cultivation adaptability of potted Asiatic lilies cultivars were available for this area. The authors grew selected 5 lily cultivars during spring and fall and evaluated their viability and marketable qualities. The viability of lily cultivars was evaluated by pooling data on chlorophyll content, leaf relative water content, relative electrolytic leakage rate, malondialdehyde content, superoxide dismutase activity, and osmotic substance content in these Asiatic lilies. It was shown that lily cultivars 'Tiny Ghost' and 'Tiny Double You' are well-suited for both spring and fall planting in Chongqing, while cultivars 'Sugar Love' and 'Curitiba' are best planted in the spring. Lily variety 'Tiny Diamond' was found to be susceptible to heat stress and exogenous additives of calcium chloride, potassium fulvic acid and melatonin in different combinations were used to reduce its effect.
The results of the manuscript's authors follow from their experimental data. The conclusions correspond to the obtained results, which are presented in the figures, tables, and text.
The reference list contains references to 62 articles that cover all the data pertaining to the topics of this manuscript and allow the reader to understand them.
Broad comments
The results of this work make it possible to recommend certain cultivars of Asiatic lilies for cultivation during certain seasons in the Chongqing area.
In the future, it would also be interesting to study in more detail the mechanism of action of exogenous substances on heat stress in lilies.
Specific comments
Figure 2: a) Indicate the cultivar of the lily in the figure caption. b) Give a transcript of the notation ddH2O or just write H2O. c) Replace “The same below” with “The same Note is true for Figures 3-5”.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsDear Editor, before the ms can be considered for publication, a major revision is required. All my comments are in the attached file.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsDear Editor, authors provided an improved version of the manuscript, however, some sections were not changed as previously required. In Material and Methos, some part of the text must be changed to past sentece. See for example section 2.4, L136-148.
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