Impact of Short-Term Atmospheric Heat Transfer on the Survival of Granary Weevil in Stored Winter Wheat

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The author Helga et al. (2022) described the Impact of short-term atmospheric heat transfer on the survival 2 of granary weevil in stored winter wheat. The manuscript is good and can contribute to our knowledge of short-term atmospheric heat transfer on the survival rate. However, below are some concerns that need to be addressed.

Minor comments

1.       The overall language must be improved; hence I found many grammatical mistakes!

2.       Line 21….and the effect

3.       Line 4: stored grains and can  

4.       Line 49: effective methods of making use   

5.       Line 67: …….dichlorvos toxicity add were before measured

6.       Line 97: content were was

7.       Line 99: S. granarius should be italic

8.       Line 114 and 115: the author mentioned heat exposure time of 5 minutes and complete information about timepoints; as mentioned, the results are sectioned. Also, provide the base for the mentioned time points.

9.       Line 122-123: here again, I suggest the authors should clearly mention the number of total insects and then, after heat treatment, add the survival and dead insects number. The general representation is good, but it leaks a clear understanding.

10.   Line 136-142: please add about the cultivar, name and the obtained source.

11.   Line 175-176: here again, please represent the survival and mortality rate in number as well.

12.   Lines: 184-186: please elaborate; the statement is incomplete.

13.   The author cited very earlier references such as; reference number 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25 and 31, must be replaced with recent studies in that particular area!

Major comments

1.       I will strongly suggest the author to check the effect of heat treatment on grain starch.

2.       I will strongly suggest the author to add expression base study of starch related genes of 107 ℃ treated grains.

3.       The author needs to add the iron and zinc content of wheat grain post 107 ℃ treatment. The author can perform dithizone staining and Prussian blue staining method.

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,
thank you for the consideration and appreiated assistance for our MS, entitled „ Impact of short-term atmospheric heat transfer on the survival of granary weevil in stored winter wheat ”. We send our revised article on the basis of the opinion of peer-reviewer.
We corrected all remarks, mistakes in MS, which are indicated by colored text by means of track changes. Besides, the article was linguistically improved by a native English speaker, We attached our comments, MS file with track changes and language revision with track changes in one pdf file.
We hope the revised MS and our given responses meet the requirements of Agronomy MDPI.
Yours sincerely,
Sándor Keszthelyi
corresponding author

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Authors presented the research of a short-term atmospheric heat transfer as a non pesticide measure for insect control in stored wheat. The paper is generally well written and structured. The main importance of this paper is that it contributes to current knowledge of the application of higher temperature in stored cereals protection. I suggest some improvement in English style and language, and some minor changes (that I listed within the attached file).  

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,
thank you for the consideration and appreciated assistance for our MS, entitled „ Impact of short-term atmospheric heat transfer on the survival of granary weevil in stored winter wheat ”. We send our revised article on the basis of the opinion of peer-reviewer.
We corrected all remarks, mistakes in MS, which are indicated by colored text by means of track changes. Besides, the article was linguistically improved by a native English speaker, We attached our comments and MS file with track changes in one pdf file.
We hope the revised MS and our given responses meet the requirements of Agronomy MDPI.
Yours sincerely,
Sándor Keszthelyi
corresponding author

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

The work «Impact of short-term atmospheric heat transfer on the survival of granary weevil in stored winter wheat», proposes to study the effect of heat on S. granarius in wheat, using five different temperatures and two different relative humidity. The work is interesting from a laboratory point of view, but it will be necessary to evaluate how it can be applied in factories and warehouses. We are talking about the grain mass and how the temperature reaches these values studied. It can't be in five, six or seven minutes. Authors should add the possibility of use in real situation. On the other hand, I could not understand whether wheat will be used for human food or seed and if they had a control to compare.
The authors need to do some revision to the work, in the pdf I present recommendations

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,
thank you for the consideration and appreciated assistance for our MS, entitled „ Impact of short-term atmospheric heat transfer on the survival of granary weevil in stored winter wheat ”. We send our revised article on the basis of the opinion of peer-reviewer.
We corrected all remarks, mistakes in MS, which are indicated by colored text by means of track changes. Besides, the article was linguistically improved by a native English speaker, We attached our comments, MS file with track changes and language revision with track changes in one pdf file.
We hope the revised MS and our given responses meet the requirements of Agronomy MDPI.
Yours sincerely,
Sándor Keszthelyi
corresponding author

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf