Effects of Organic Fertilizer Supply on Soil Properties, Tomato Yield, and Fruit Quality: A Global Meta-Analysis
, Li Zhang 1,* and Rongping Zhang 1,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors
Your research can be improved by considering these comments and suggestions as follow:
-Abstract: The use of organic fertilizers in various crops like tomatoes has been extensively researched. What is the novelty of your research?
-Lines 62-63: You did not mention the pest issue, which is a key problem.
-Lines 78-89: Information that is unnecessary and repeated. This section should be summarized.
-Figure 1: What are the locations of the selected sites in the figure?
-Lines 398-399: You may provide some recent citations.
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Author Response
Novelty: Our study provides comprehensive analysis of the statistical results of several independent studies carried out across different continents. This study was not related to one environment, rather it encompasses different continents.
Line 62-63: Although pest is a key issue, but it needs a separate full fledged study.
Line 78-89: Summerized and marked RED.
Figure 1: The figure was enlarged which clearly shows the countries across different location where experiment was conducted. Supplementary data have all details in excel sheet.
Line 398-399: The references cited in the text were from other crops.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors!
This is a very good manuscript. The experiment design, the presentation of the results, and the conclusion are good. Before the publication, I have some comments which can increase the quality of the manuscript.
Please change Figure 1. In this current form it is misunderstandable. Moreover please wrote the countries' names, when you collected the dates (not only the test points of Europe, Asia, etc.).
Lines 144-145, and lines 150-154. The formulas are unnecessaries in my opinion you can delete them from the text. You were cited in the test, it is not important to write again.
Figure 2-Figure 11. Please increase the size of the letters because in some figures it is hard to read. Please increase the quality of the figures.
In the conclusion section please wrote a little bit about the methods, for example, why these methods were good to analyze the data.
All the best!
Author Response
Thanks for encouraging comments
The figure was enlarged and can be easily understandable.'
Line 144-145, 150-154: The formulas needs to be shown, if managing editor wants to delete it he may....
Figure 2-11: Figures enlarged and now can be easily seen.
