Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of Essential Oil from the Aerial Parts of Teucrium luteum (Mill.) Degen subsp. flavovirens (Batt.) Greuter & Burdet Growing Wild in Tunisia

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear author, congratulations for the excellent work, after some corrections it can be accepted for publication.

1 – Scientific names must be in italics since they are in Latin.

2 – The name of the botanical family must appear in the keywords

3 – I noticed that some names present in the title are also in the keywords, please correct this, they cannot be repeated.

4 – Place the coordinates of the collection site, as well as the period (month, year and time) of collection of botanical material

5 – The material must be deposited in a herbarium, which will give a voucher number.

6 – I missed some works in the reference list, please include in order to increase the importance of your work:

Bezerra, J. N., Gomez, M. C. V., Rolón, M., Coronel, C., Almeida-Bezerra, J. W., Fidelis, K. R., ... & Bezerra, C. F. (2022). Chemical composition, Evaluation of Antiparasitary and Cytotoxic Activity of the essential oil of Psidium brownianum MART EX. DC. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 39, 102247.

Bezerra, J. W. A., Costa, A. R., Da Silva, M. A. P., Rocha, M. I., Boligon, A. A., Da Rocha, J. B. T., ... & Kamdem, J. P. (2017). Chemical composition and toxicological evaluation of Hyptis suaveolens (L.) Poiteau (LAMIACEAE) in Drosophila melanogaster and Artemia salina. South African Journal of Botany, 113, 437-442.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The article is devoted to the study of the composition and antioxidant properties of essential oil from aerial parts of Teucrium luteum (Mill.) Degen subsp. flavovirens (Batt.) Greuter & Burdet growing wild in Tunisia. Although the composition of this plant from other areas has already been published, the data obtained may be of value to specialists. The authors compared the results with the literature data and concluded about the possible reasons for the differences. In general, the article is well written and can be published after correcting some of the comments, a list of which is given below.

 

line 48. Antipyretic is written twice. Remove duplicate word

lines 124, 213. 3,5-di-tert-4-butylhydroxytoluene (BHT). Although this name is often used, it is better to write the locant before its substitute (3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxytoluene is recommended)

line 181. 48.73%. Perhaps this excessive accuracy is covered by the experimental error and this value should be rounded off (at least 48.7%).

line 301. Costa, jean; Should be Costa, J;

 

Chromatographic profile of essential oil should also be provided in Supporting Information

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