Physical, Nutritional and Functional Properties of Walnuts Genotypes (Juglans regia L.) from Romania

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript is interesting and provides information on the pomological and biochemical properties of Romanian walnut genotypes, which could also be of interest for the wider cultivation.   I generally do not have many comments on the design of the experiment, the methods used, the results and their interpretation.   However, there are a lot of inappropriate phrases and terminology in the text, grammatical shortcomings, design errors (spaces between numbers and units, ...) - all of which I marked with comments in the text. There are some missing references, some Tables could be less extensive - which is also noted in the comments. I suggest authors to go through the article carefully and take into account the comments and corrections. In addition, I suggest that the article review the English native speaker.        

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Reviewer 2 Report

There are no other recommendations to be made.

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Dear Reviewer,

We would like to address all our thanks and gratitude for your appreciations.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ileana Cocan

Reviewer 3 Report

Some remarks related to the presented manuscript

Unfortunately I had problem to reach the some description of applied methods (Physical analysis - they were unavailable for me). Please provide more detailed description in the revised version of manuscript

Also I have found some problem with literature citing

l. Hayes D.K. et al. (2015) [5]   - remove 2015 or place just [5] (line 43)

line 105 the same problem

Table 1 - the same number of decimal places (no. 20 11.5 should be 11.50). This remarks is also valid for other tables. Just check it

And the most important issue: try to put more stress on conclusions. They have to be expanded. In current state there is no conclusions at all. You have applied many statistical tool, so use them in conclusions

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Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

Only a few corrections are needed

l. 421 rather variables

l. 422 remove text

Table 7 add description below the table (now it is only in l.385)

The authors assumd only one level of impoerrtance (r=0.7). Reconsider the use of two or more, nad marked thewm with (r>0.5 ; r>0.7 **; r>0.95 ***). It is only suggestion. I was provided with non editable pdf file, so I was not able to check it.

l. 441 "also" in this context has no sense.

Conclusions: high correlation between lipids and energy value is rather obvious.

Also I am not particularly content with the last sentence in conclusion section, so please reconsider it. It is not mandatory

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