Production and Harvest Quality of Tomato Fruit Cultivated Under Different Water Replacement Levels and Photoprotector Strategies
, Luiz Fernando da Silva Nascimento 1, Angelo Pedro Jacomino 2, Jéfferson de Oliveira Costa 3 and Rubens Duarte Coelho 1
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe paper discussed Production and harvest quality of tomato fruits cultivated under different water replacement levels and photoprotector strategies. The subject is important in smart agriculture. Some comments are as follows:
1. In abstract section, line 21. Please insert Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI).
2. at line 192, please explain the meaning of 107 DAT and so on.
3. Pleas insert the specification of the FLIR T640 thermal camera.
4. at line 222 to 225, please inset refence to support results.
5. at Line 228, why temperature above 35 â•£C cause less use of nutrition,....
5. The author wrote" The thin film formed by calcium carbonate on plant leaves possibly increased the (400 to 700nm), which is the ideal range for photosynthesis. In this sense, studies show that the use of calcium carbonate via foliar use is promising in promoting better conditions for plants to be more efficient in water use and in their biochemical processes". Please give analyze of such finding using mathematical theory if possible or physically.
6. Please give justifications for the highest WPc values were found in the treatment WRL 70, with an average of 24.1, 23.3 , 23.3 kg m−3 within the treatments without photoprotector, with photoprotector and with photoprotector and adjuvant, respectively.
7. Please give justifications for the treatment that produced the highest average value of titratable acidity was the WRL 130 (0.36%) and the treatment with the lowest average value of soluble solids was WRL 70 (0.31%).
8.Please give justifications for the higher titratable acidity in the WRL 130 treatment showed that tomato plants subjected to water stress (WRL 70) tend to produce more acidic fruits, unlike plants that receive the correct amount of water (WRL 100) or a level higher than necessary (WRL 130).
9.Please state the limitation of the study.
Author Response
Reviewer #1:
- In abstract section, line 21. Please insert Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI).
Answer: We entered the acronym CWSI.
- At line 192, please explain the meaning of 107 DAT and so on.
Answer: We explained the meaning of DAT in the first line of the paragraph.
- Pleas insert the specification of the FLIR T640 thermal camera.
Answer: We have entered the specifications of the FLIR T640 thermal camera.
- At line 222 to 225, please inset refence to support results.
Answer: We have inserted references to support these results.
- At Line 228, why temperature above 35 ºC cause less use of nutrition.
Answer: The reduced use of nutrients by tomato plants is due to physiological disturbances caused by heat stress. High temperatures result in depressed water and nutrient uptake rates, which are related to reduced oxygen solubility and increased enzymatic oxidation of phenolic compounds in epidermal and root cortex tissues.
- The author wrote" The thin film formed by calcium carbonate on plant leaves possibly increased the (400 to 700nm), which is the ideal range for photosynthesis. In this sense, studies show that the use of calcium carbonate via foliar use is promising in promoting better conditions for plants to be more efficient in water use and in their biochemical processes". Please give analyze of such finding using mathematical theory if possible or physically.
Answer: We include a physical analysis of this finding.
- Please give justifications for the highest WPc values were found in the treatment WRL 70, with an average of 24.1, 23.3, 23.3 kg m−3 within the treatments without photoprotector, with photoprotector and with photoprotector and adjuvant, respectively.
Answer: We justify the higher WPc values ​​found in the WRL 70 treatment.
- Please give justifications for the treatment that produced the highest average value of titratable acidity was the WRL 130 (0.36%) and the treatment with the lowest average value of soluble solids was WRL 70 (0.31%).
Answer: We have included a justification.
- Please give justifications for the higher titratable acidity in the WRL 130 treatment showed that tomato plants subjected to water stress (WRL 70) tend to produce more acidic fruits, unlike plants that receive the correct amount of water (WRL 100) or a level higher than necessary (WRL 130).
Answer: We have included a justification.
- Please state the limitation of the study.
Answer: We indicate the limitations of the study.
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsIt is interesting to study tomato yield and harvest quality under different water displacement and light protection strategies. It is interesting to evaluate the crop by analyzing the thermal image of tomato plants.
The following problems exist:
The meteorological data in Figure 1 should be supplemented with explanations for the more volatile dates;
The data in Figure 3 need to be supplemented, and the analysis result is simple.
The units in Table 1 need to be modified, do not put a single row.
The Line 182 data analysis is not very clearly written.
Line 300 conclusions need to be supplemented and do not clarify the relationship between moisture and quality.
Comments on the Quality of English Languagenone
Author Response
Reviewer #2:
- The meteorological data in Figure 1 should be supplemented with explanations for the more volatile dates.
Answer: We supplemented the explanations of the meteorological data in Figure 1.
- The data in Figure 3 need to be supplemented, and the analysis result is simple.
Answer: We supplemented the data in Figure 3.
- The units in Table 1 need to be modified, do not put a single row.
Answer: We have fixed this.
- The Line 182 data analysis is not very clearly written.
Answer: We rewrote the paragraph about data analysis.
- Line 300 conclusions need to be supplemented and do not clarify the relationship between moisture and quality.
Answer: We supplement the conclusions section.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsNo comments
Author Response
Thank you very much for your assessment.
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThe article has the following problems:
The expression of the curve in Figure 2 is irregular, and the color needs to be modified. Key points need to be highlighted in bold.
The information described in Figure 3 is incomplete. You are advised to modify it according to Figure 4.
The annotation in Figure 5 is not clear, and the text needs to be bolded.
Figure 6 has a similar problem that needs to be modified.
In the conclusion part, the comparison between the research and other international studies should be increased, and the innovation points should be highlighted.
Comments on the Quality of English Languagenone
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
We have corrected the points you raised. We have removed the lines from Figure 2, changed the color yellow (it makes it worse to see), and highlighted the meteorological data collection points. The information described in Figure 3 is complete; the irrigation water applied varied only as a function of the water replenishment levels. We have increased the font of the data labels in Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6.
The comparison between the research and other international studies and the innovation points are at the end of the Discussion section.
Round 3
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsIn the discussion of Line 206, the innovation points of weather and water consumption are not made clear, and the discussion of research needs to be supplemented.
Figure 3, the text in the figure is too large and the information is too little, it is recommended to delete.
The analysis of the outliers in Figure 4 is added to Line260.
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
We have included a discussion paragraph at Line 214, about tomato water consumption. We have excluded Figure 3, which only had irrigation water applied values ​​that are in the text. We have included an analysis of outliers in Figure 4 at Line 261.
