Effect of Some Soil Conditioners on Water-Use Efficacy, Growth, and Yield of Date Palm Siwi Grown in Sandy Soil under Different Irrigation Regimes to Mitigate Climate Change
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Article is devoted to the actual problem. Besides than it must be improved.
Please, check the text. Somwhere it was used a register for data units, somewhere the style formatting has been lost (fruit/m3, etc)
Accuretly check units at the figures (Water productivity (kg fruits /m3 water fed.-1), register formatting is required.
Line 411 rephrase the sentense.
Table 8/ cost of add - what do you mean, currency?
Line 576 - red color?
All figures, tables - mathematical statistics must be provided.
Lines 391-397 - not readable, improve English.
Moderate English proof is required.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Authors should submit the manuscript to a native speaker of the English language prior to its actual submission to Sustainability - MDPI.
I recommend Dr. Clinton C. Shock from the Malheur Experiment Station - Oregon State University - OSU, Ontario, OR, USA, for proofreading it in compliance with science requirements aiming at publication.
His e-mail address is [email protected]
References turn out to be the crux of an outstanding research. The current contribution is fraught with excessive references that do not firm up the outcomes obtained by the authors at all.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The Introduction is very well substantiated.
The experiment scheme and experiment conditions are clearly presented, as is the sampling procedure.
The figures are clear and summarize very well the influence of each variation of each factor, and the discussion is interesting and useful.
The chapters' numbers must be revised as there is a Chapter 3. Crop-soil-water relations and a Chapter 3. Results. Also, the ”Crop-soil-water relations” chapter doesn't seem very clear to me and I don't fully understand its importance in the research; I must admit though that I don't have much knowledge in this particular field.
The equations can be made clearer by using the Word Equation Editor.
The interesting approach on water use efficiency and means to improve it, very useful in the general context of climate change, and the economic analysis give important practice value to this research.
The conclusions are straight forward, very useful for practice.
The many and fairly recent references are well suited and back up the research findings and the discussion.
The paper still needs some language revision.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors improved the article according reviewer's request. It can be accepted for publication in Suistanability
Author Response
According to the reviewers comments, the main concerns with this paper are:
Thanks for your encouragement to us and we appreciate your clarifications
Comment 1: English style and grammar must be substantially improved
Response. 1-Thank you for your suggestion, we made more editing on our manuscript and it became more apparently.
Comment 2 : references must be properly cited in the text
Response 2- We checked and correct them .
Comment 2: units must be checked in both the text and figures
Response 3- Thank you for this note, we did.
General Comments
As a result of the aforementioned comments, I encourage a deep revision
of the paper in view of its resubmission.
It is also necessary to improve the accuracy of the references used in
relation to the results obtained, as mentioned by reviewer 2."
So please check did you reply to all reviewers' comments before and
change everything you think should be revised.
Response
Thanks again for your suggestions , and
we made more editing to revise our manuscript to make it more clear, according to the opinions of the reviewers
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