The SSR Genetic Diversity of Wild Red Fruit Lycium (Lycium barbarum) in Northwest China
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors,
Congratulations for your contributive manuscript. Some of my comments are given follow to improve the manuscript. Best regards,
Title: It monitors the paper.
Abstract: It is sufficient and detail.
Key words: 4 keywords are given. However, 3 of them from the title. They should be reconsidered by authors.
Introduction: It is given by related references. However, aim/s of the paper should be given clearly at end of this part. Some botanical characteristic of Lycium should be also given here for readers.
Materials and Methods: It is sufficient and detail.
Results: Results are related to paper’s findings. They are supported by Table and Figures.
Discussion: Results of the paper are discussed by published papers.
Conclusions: They are extracted results of the paper.
References and Figures: All references and figures should be kept in the paper.
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Reviewer 2 Report
The highly relevant research generates valuable information to design Lycium barbarum conservation strategies. However, it requires some improvements, please review the comments in the document and modify the manuscript.
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Author Response
Since reviewer 2 added notes directly to the PDF version of the manuscript, and there were only a few minor suggested changes, we did not have a point-to-point response, and we should have improved the revised manuscript one by one based on the reviewer's comments.
Reviewer 3 Report
Title: The SSR genetic diversity of wild red fruit Lycium in Northwest China
The paper aimed to examined the genetic patterns and diversity of the collected Lycium germplasm. There are some drawbacks which should be corrected or addressed before the acceptance.
Line 42- 50 “Although Zhao et al. [3] conducted an analysis of the genetic diversity of L. chinense…….
…….., facilitating more informed conservation and breeding efforts” is better to move after line 65 “….diversity and facilitate germplasm advancements in red-fruited Lycium.”
Line 66 delete “The potential impact of a single seed on the world should not be underestimated”
State the year when the research carried out
State the name of the botanist who identified the plants.
Some detail on how the primers were designed?
The quality of Figure 1 the section “a” is low
The discussion is not deep. discuss on all the molecular marker parameter quantitatively. The PIC for earlier research? The similar or different values for other parameters and the reason?
Line 241-252 is the repeat of results, revised please
The discussion on cluster is missed, state some phenotypic difference among the accession. Discussing just by highlighting the geographical variation is not accepted.
The conclusion is a summary of result, while I expected acceptance and or rejection of your hypothesis and obtains objectives…. revise it please.
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
Thanks
The authors corrected all the asked suggestion. This version of the manuscript is acceptable for publication
Author Response
We thank the reviewer's for agreeing to accept the current version of the manuscript.
Since the reviewer did not make any comments, we did not make any further changes for the time being.
Once again, I would like to thank the three reviewers and the editor for their review!
