Effect of TiO₂ Nanoparticles on the Yield and Photophysiological Responses of Cherry Tomatoes during the Rainy Season

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Abstract section: “TiO2” first time use full form.

ET0/RC first time use full form

Material and methods, Section 2.2; TiO2 treatment: How you optimize the dose of 100 mg and 200 mg of TiO2, provide suitable reference.

Reference Section: first reference, please correct publishing year.

Reference 20. Is missing in the manuscript

All abbreviation first time use full form

Author Response

Thank you for taking the time to review this manuscript.

The revised manuscript was revised through MDPI English proofreading service.

Point 1: All abbreviation first time used full form

Response 1:In all parts, the first use of the abbreviation has been modified to be in its complete form.

Point 2: Material and methods, Section 2.2; TiO₂ treatment: How you optimize the dose of 100 mg and 200 mg of TiO₂, provide suitable reference.

Response 2: In section 2.2, the reason for setting the TiO₂ concentration has been added

Point 3: Reference Section: first reference, please correct publishing year. Reference 20. Is missing in the manuscript.

Response 3: All errors in references have been corrected.

It has been revised to improve the overall part of the manuscript.

Reviewer 2 Report

I reviewed the article submitted by Hyo Gil Choi in the MDPI journal Horticulturae. The conducted work comes within the scope of the journal. However, the present article has several errors and needs major improvement. In its present format, the paper is not recommended for possible publication. Some suggestions are given below.

1. Title of the article could be revised. Concise the title.
2. Revise the abstract. What you have learned from this experiment and what do you recommend to others.
3. Introduction section needs major revision,
4. Check the reference style (a [1] (Jeong et al., 2017)) and revise accordingly.
5. I think, it is better to skip this statement “In Pakistan, where there are many mountainous areas, it is reported that agricultural risk due to extreme abnormal weather is large [2] (Fahad and Wang, 2018).”
6. The greenhouse size were 25 × 10 × 3.5 m (length × width × height). How many greenhouses were selected? One or more than one, revise accordingly.
7. Write full forms of the all-used abbreviations.
8. What the x-axis represents in figure 1. Please revise and write with complete information. In its present form, the new reader could not understand your graph.
9. Revise the title of Figure 2.

Author Response

Thank you for taking the time to review this manuscript.

The revised manuscript was revised through MDPI English proofreading service.

Point 1: Title of the article could be revised. Concise the title.

Response 1: The title has been edited for conciseness.

Point 2: Revise the abstract. What you have learned from this experiment and what do you recommend to others.

Response 2: Abstract has been revised according to reviewers' comments.

Point 3: Introduction section needs major revision. Check the reference style (a [1] (Jeong et al., 2017)) and revise accordingly. I think, it is better to skip this statement “In Pakistan, where there are many mountainous areas, it is reported that agricultural risk due to extreme abnormal weather is large [2] (Fahad and Wang, 2018).”

Response 3: Many parts of the introduction part have been corrected. Also, the method of inserting references was edited according to the style of the paper. And the references Fahad and Wang, 2018 have been deleted.

Point 4: The greenhouse size were 25 × 10 × 3.5 m (length × width × height). How many greenhouses were selected? One or more than one, revise accordingly.

Response 4: Modified as follows: One greenhouse with a size of 25 × 10 × 3.5 m (length × width × height) was used in this experiment.

Point 5: Write full forms of the all-used abbreviations.

Response 5: In all parts, the first use of the abbreviation has been modified to be in its complete form.

Point 6: What the x-axis represents in figure 1. Please revise and write with complete information. In its present form, the new reader could not understand your graph.

Response 6: I made the X-axis label in Figure 1 to improve the figure completeness.

Point 7: Revise the title of Figure 2.

Response 6: The title of Figure 2 has been corrected.

It has been revised to improve the overall part of the manuscript.

Reviewer 3 Report

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Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank you for taking the time to review this manuscript.

The revised manuscript was revised through MDPI English proofreading service.

The manuscript has been revised according to the attached 19 comments of reviewer . And the corrected part is marked in red.

Thank you once again for reviewing to improve the content of the manuscript.