The Submergence of the Graft Union Causes the Death of Grafted Mango Trees (Mangifera indica L.) under Flooding
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
There are a few tables that can be removed if I understood the data correctly. I put a few sentences in the comment boxes on the attached manuscript to replace the tables. Additionally, include in the conclusion that future research might also look at grafting mango trees higher on rootstocks to see if grafting higher affects quality in addition to keeping graft unions above expected flood levels. Otherwise it looks great.
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Author Response
Thank you very much for the careful review and the useful comments. We would like to explain the response to the comments as follows.
1. Regarding Table 1, there are no other tables or figures showing the data of water potentials, so I did not delete it, but detailed explanation was added. Because we wanted to show that the fluctuations of the water potentials were quite large.
2. Table 2 was deleted and the explanation was added as follows.
"Similarly, Fv/Fm did not differ among the treatments in both grafted trees (mean 0.81, SEM 0.002) and seedlings (mean 0.82, SEM 0.001) until the middle of July. Nevertheless, at the end of July (July 29), 30-Flood (0.60 ± 0.072) was lower than both 10-Flood (0.80 ± 0.015) and Control (0.80 ± 0.020) only in grafted trees."
3. The others have been corrected according to your suggestions.
Reviewer 2 Report
This research has been carried out based on appropriate purpose and experimental design. As the authors mentioned, flooding tolerance becomes important problems nowadays. The results of this study give information that the submergence of scion parts is critical for grafted trees. Since grafting is used for a lot of crops, this information is useful for many farmers and researchers.
One question is the materials used. It is unclear which species was used as the rootstock and seedling. It was just written as “a species”. It is even unknown whether it is Mangofera species or not. If there is any information, it is better to add in description of materials.
Author Response
Thank you very much for the careful review and the useful comments. We would like to explain the response to the comments as follows.
1. The paper explaining the native species was found. Since the species was confirmed to be polyembryonic, I added the description and cited the paper.
