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  • Antonella Castagna1,2,3,
  • Giada Mariottini1 and
  • Annamaria Ranieri1,2,3
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Reviewer 1: Stefany Cárdenas Pérez Reviewer 2: Dayong Zhang

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The article "Nutritional composition and bioactivity of Salicornia europaea 2 plants grown in monoculture or intercropped with tomato 3 plants in salt-affected soils" as a title sounds attractive, however when reading the content it contains many drowbacks.

First of all, author must be very careful on the Salicornia in italics, not taking care of this detail gives the impression of a low attention. The full manuscript contains a lot of mistakes on how this plant is cited.

 

Also, authors evaluated the nutritional content of a halophyte, in this case, Salicornia, however, they didnt considered its optimum condition of growth and that this factor invariably influences the synthesis of the analyzed compounds.

In addition, the methods do not accurately describe how the study samples were cultured. The authors state that they bought the plants. Did they plant them later? They should be careful about this description.

 

The authors compared their results with other cited articles but without considering that the other reported samples may be growing under different conditions of light, water, nutrients, salinity, etc.

 

The title mentions the nutritional analysis of the plant when it is grown alone in a greenhouse or intercrop with tomato, but it would also have been interesting to know what happens to the tomato when it is always grown together with this halophyte, at least when reading the title this can be inferred .

 

I attach the pdf with the comments that I have already described.

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Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

In this manuscript, only one lower concentration of Na ion was designed and tomato nutritional components also should be measured.  they found that there is no significant diference between  monoculture or intercropped crop system. I think this is no meaning for this expermental design. 

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

I recommend for publication. Authores improved the manuscript subtantially.

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have addresses all my concern, and I suggest accept it in current form.