Genotype X Environment Response of ‘Matooke’ Hybrids (Naritas) to Pseudocercospora fijiensis, the Cause of Black Sigatoka in Banana
, Altus Viljoen 2, Rony Swennen 6,7 and George Mahuku 1,8,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article is well written, and hopefully, this could catch readers' attention before growing bananas. However, there are minor issues to be considered before going for the final decision-
- Some parts of the article are needed a detailed explanation, especially planting materials, disease confirmation.
- I think there should have a conclusion part.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Genotype x environment response of ‘Matooke’ hybrids (NARITAs) to
Pseudocercospora fijiensis, the cause of black Sigatoka in banana aimed at elucidating the resistance to black Sigatoka disease in different hybrids of Banana.
The hybrids were planted in different environments and different countries and authors claimed to demonstrate their resistance to the disease only performing Disease evaluation and affirming the found differences are related to different genotypes and environment.
In my opinion it is not possible to define the resistance to a disease basing only to a visual disease evaluation. More information at molecular levels, such as antioxidant enzyme response, pathogenic proteins and other disease markers are necessary.
About the environments: A detailed description of how the differences among the environments were evaluated in the Methods and in the Results data from those analysis should be provided.
In my opinion the manuscript should be rejected and encouraged to submit after the suggested analysis underlined above, have been performed.
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Reviewer 3 Report
I would have liked that the authors focused on variance analysis than using a very simplistic (model) approach to calculate disease severity.
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript has been carefully revised by the authors.
Although I still have doubts about the real scientific interest of this work, the manuscript can be now published from a technical point of view.
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