Effects of Post-Anthesis Temperature and Radiation on Grain Filling and Protein Quality of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
, Nianbing Zhou, Chen Zhao, Bingliang Liu, Dinghan Jia, Haiyan Wei, Baowei Guo and Hongcheng Zhang *
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors
I read the article. It is an interesting subject.
General comments
Please answer my questions:
References are not suitable for the MDPI format. Please revise them.
What is the novelty of this study? (It is not clear to me)
Specific comments
Line 12 remove the great
Line 162-168 need to revision
Lien 219 needs to revision
Best regards
Author Response
Responses to Reviewer’s Comments
I read the article. It is an interesting subject.
We highly appreciate the overall comments and recognition of the significance of our study by this reviewer
- References are not suitable for the MDPI format. Please revise them.
Thank you for your comments. According to your comments, we have carefully compared and revised the references according to the MDPI Format. Please see References.
- What is the novelty of this study? (It is not clear to me)
Compared with previous studies, this experiment simulated the future changes of temperature and radiation by changing the sowing date, and studied the effects of temperature and radiation on wheat grain filling and protein quality, in order to cope with the changes of temperature and radiation in the future. The experimental results are expected to guide the changes of wheat stubble under climate change in the future and to obtain high quality protein wheat.
- Line 12 remove the great
According to your suggestion, we've corrected this line in the abstract. Please see Line 13.
- Line 162-168 need to revision
According to your suggestion, we modified Line 162-168. The changes in protein and protein-related quality of the two types of wheat under different temperature and radiation treatments showed the same rule, and the rules were similar in different years (Table 4). There were significant differences in protein content, wet gluten content and sedimentation value among sowing date treatments. With the postponement of sowing time, the protein content increased gradually, and the protein content increased by 0.21% for each delayed sowing date. With the postponement of sowing time, the wet gluten content increased gradually, and the wet gluten content increased by 0.45% per delayed sowing date. With the postponement of sowing time, the sedimentation value increases gradually, and the sedimentation value increases 1.34ml for each delayed sowing date.
- Line 219 needs to revision
According to your suggestion, we modified Line 219.
Reviewer 2 Report
Congrats to the author and team for good research work but manuscript drafting needs some improvement. The reviewer added a few suggestions in the attached file. Hope for an improved version.
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Author Response
Responses to Reviewer’s Comments
Congrats to the author and team for good research work but manuscript drafting needs some improvement. The reviewer added a few suggestions in the attached file. Hope for an improved version.
We highly appreciate the overall comments and recognition of our research work by this reviewer. According to your suggestions, we have made some improvement to the manuscript, and we hope to get your recognition. The improvements have been marked in the manuscript, please check the manuscript.
Please add the graph of Max – Min Temperature, Relative humidity and rainfall during week duration of experimentation in supplementary file.
According to your suggestion, we have added the changes of major climate factors during the experiment period to the attachment (please see the attachment). I'm sorry that these experimental data were not added in the manuscript, as they have already been used in other articles.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Appreciate the improved version of the manuscript but still, there are few suggestions by the reviewer in the attached file. Hope the improved final version.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Responses to Reviewer’s Comments
Appreciate the improved version of the manuscript but still, there are few suggestions by the reviewer in the attached file. Hope the improved final version.
We appreciate your recognition of the revised manuscript. According to your comments, we have made further modifications and we hope to get your recognition. Please check the manuscript.
Please add the graph of Max – Min Temperature, Relative humidity and rainfall during week duration of experimentation in supplementary file.
According to your suggestion, we have added Max – Min Temperature, Relative humidity and rainfall during week duration of experimentation in supplementary file. Please see Fig1, Fig2 and Fig3 in the attachment.
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