Effect of Inoculation Level on the Impact of the PGPR Azospirillum lipoferum CRT1 on Selected Microbial Functional Groups in the Rhizosphere of Field Maize
, Claire Prigent-Combaret 1, Florence Wisniewski-Dyé 1, Laurent Legendre 1,2, Yvan Moënne-Loccoz 1 and Daniel Muller 1,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors,
I congratulate you on a work nicely done and wish you good luck with the publication.
Regards,
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Author Response
We thank the reviewer for his positive comments on the manuscript.
Commented [M1]: I suggest removing this statement, mentioning only the refereneces.
Done
Commented [M2]: Please indicate between brackets what does the letters mean.
Corrected accordingly
Commented [M3]: Please use the same font in tables like in the main text.
Corrected accordingly
Commented [M4]: If possible please do some comparisons with the literature, in relation with the results presented in Fig.1.
Figure 1 shows abundance data for 3 functional groups following inoculation with different Azospirillum formulations. To our knowledge, no other study presents this type of analysis at the microbial functional group level. It is therefore not possible to discuss these data in relation to previously published data.
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript complements the paper of these authors in Frontiers. The text is well-written and experiments are designed properly. It is just suggested to the authors to subtract text for misspellings and unwanted symbols.
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for his/her positive comments on the manuscript. We carefully edited the manuscript to correct typos and spelling errors.
