Advances in Postharvest Diseases Management of Fruits and Vegetables: A Review
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments to authors
Horticulturae-2549183
The manuscript submitted by Moradinezhad and Ranjbar. focused on the harvesting and transportation methods that minimize the product damage as well as the considering the storage conditions to prevent the growth of dieseas in the fruits and vegetables. Overall, the manuscript is technically sound and does not have major issues that may prevent its publication in this journal. Therefore, I recommended a minor revision and my detailed comments are as follows:
1. Page #2, line 4 the soma clonal should be combine, there is no space.
2. Authors should add one paragraphs in the introduction related to the dieseas regarding fruits and vegetables harvesting.
3. In intrioduction, there is also lack of paragraph or few lines of previous techniques and strategies used to reduced postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables.
4. There must be one figure in the biological control section, that keep this section more sound and attract the readers for easy understading.
5. Under biological control heading, although the paragraphs are also fine but if authors express the date in the form of table that will be more attaractive.
6. How could you express the speacificity of biosensors? Because mostly are specific to speacif food or crop.
7. Under the heading of nanotechnology mostly data is related to coating, however authors already explain it under eadible coating heading and the mostly nano particle are non edible.
8. Overall the article looks informative but I am not agree with the presentation style of authors, I sugges them to add 2, 3 figures and 2,3 tables, Mostly the data under edible coating, biological control heading is tabular. Additionally they make a overall table describing each method with seprate heading.
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Author Response
Dear respected reviewer,
Thanks so much for your valuable comments and suggestions. We corrected paper according to all reviewers' comments.
Best regards
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Reviewer 2 Report
The paper looks interesting to the readers with good compiling for current literature and discussion in terms of postharvest management. however, this paper needs to be improved on one important topic, as follows:
1) The authors need to open a new section dealing with the fabrication, characterization and application of films, coating and their role in controlling post-harvest diseases in many fruits and vegetables/ the following literature will help you and guide you to address this aspect.
-Foods 2021, 10(2), 249
-Polymers 2021, 13(5), 767
2) Also, please state the main mechanism of action of such edible films and coatings when applying pristine biopolymers and doped fibers as well. Please further discuss.
3)conclusion: Please, state the future trends in this topic.
Just a few grammar and punctuation mistakes.
Author Response
Dear respected reviewer,
Thanks so much for your valuable comments and suggestions. We corrected paper according to all reviewers' comments.
Best regards
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Reviewer 3 Report
Dear author, the manuscript presented as a review is of great relevance, however, I consider it necessary to make the following changes and include more information in some sections that are specifically indicated. On the other hand, I consider it appropriate to integrate visual information such as diagrams, images, diagrams, etc., of the effects generated for the control of diseases in plants to visually support part of the information to be published in this manuscript.
Section 1.2.1. Biological control
1.- It is suggested to integrate information about organic volatile compounds, what are they, what are their characteristics, because most of the effects generated by microorganisms produce them according to the information presented, so it would be relevant to include such information.
2.-It is suggested to include more information on the antibiotics produced by Bacillus " Fan et al. (2017) showed the ability of Bacillus subtilis in producing antibiotics and VOCs to suppress postharvest pathogens such as Botrytis cinerea, Rhizopus stolonifer, and Colletotrichum spp in strawberries [43]" [43]".
3.- In this section could you please indicate what you mean by modification of the microbiome "Microbial antagonists significantly modulate the fruit microbiome and improve fruit health by inhibiting pathogenic aerobic microbial species and promoting beneficial microorganisms [26]".
4.- It is recommended to indicate which type of bacteria are described within the group of "Bacterial plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) [38].
Section 1.2.2. Biosensors
5.- In this section of Biosensors could include more specific information of the types of biosensors "antibodies, antimicrobial peptides, phages, cells, organelles, microorganisms, enzymes, and nucleic acid". Also include information on studies in which they have been used.
Section 1.2.3. Nanotechnology
6.- It is suggested to include in a general way at the beginning of the information the types of nanomaterials that can be used and the characteristics they must have to be used in this area.
Section 1.2.5. Edible coatings
In this section it is requested to include information on the types of edible coatings that can be used and the characteristics they should have for their use.
Section 1.2.6. Essential oils (EOs)
8.-In this section integrate which types of Essential oils (EOs) have been used or can be used.
Author Response
Dear respected reviewer,
Thanks so much for your valuable comments and suggestions. We corrected paper according to all reviewers' comments.
Best regards
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Still regarding my first comment, 1) The authors need to open a new section (or at least to mention some paragraph) dealing with the fabrication, characterization and application of films, coating and their role in controlling post-harvest diseases in many fruits and vegetables/ the following literature will help you and guide you to address this aspect.
-Foods 2021, 10(2), 249
-Polymers 2021, 13(5), 767
Author Response
Dear respected reviewer,
Thanks for your good suggestion. We added some examples and more information regarding edible coatings and their roles in controlling post-harvest diseases in some fruits and vegetables. The new changes highlighted in yellow background in the text.
Regards
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 3 Report
Dear Author, thank you for having considered the comments and suggestions in the elaboration of the submitted manuscript.
Good luck for other works
Author Response
Dear respected reviewer,
Many thanks for your time and good comments. New changes highlighted in yellow.
Best regards
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
