Amelioration of Chilling Injury by Fucoidan in Cold-Stored Cucumber via Membrane Lipid Metabolism Regulation
, Chuying Chen, Liqin Zhu, Wenbin Kai, Jinyin Chen and Zengyu Gan *Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors,
The minor suggestions were given in the PDF file of the manuscript for your perusal.
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Author Response
The manuscript has been carefully rechecked and appropriate changes (colour into red in the revised manuscript) have been made in accordance with your suggestions. We thank you for the thoughtful suggestions and insights, which have enriched the manuscript and produced a more balanced and better account of the research. We hope that the revised manuscript is now suitable for publication in the journal.
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper is focusing on the Amelioration of chilling injury by fucoidan in cold-stored cucumber via membrane lipid metabolism regulation. Good Introduction, well defined aim of the study. Good Results section, as well. Please see below my few suggestions I consider will improve the quality of this manuscript:
1. Please extend the figures on the entire width of the page, to be readable (the size of the characters used on the figure should be similar with those in the main text).
2. Figure 6. Please explain the abbreviations used on the figure, after the title of the figure, namely L292.
3. Discussion section should be better developed. Please discuss the importance of fucoidan on human health. Does consumption of plants (that were stored) containing fucoidan have any beneficial health effects? Do they influence the antioxidant capacity on humans or other mammals? Some experimental studies should be reminded in this regard – I suggest checking and referring to https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-020-07711-w and https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9316751 Can the existence of fucoidan in plants constitute a public health measure to improve the general health status of the population?
4. After L 365, please add a paragraph highlighting/detailing the strengths and the weakness of your research/results.
Author Response
The manuscript has been carefully rechecked and appropriate changes (colour into red in the revised manuscript) have been made in accordance with your suggestions. The responses to the comments have been prepared and attached. We thank you for the thoughtful suggestions and insights, which have enriched the manuscript and produced a more balanced and better account of the research. We hope that the revised manuscript is now suitable for publication in the journal.
- Please extend the figures on the entire width of the page, to be readable (the size of the characters used on the figure should be similar with those in the main text).
Re: revised. All figures have been adjusted as required.
- Figure 6. Please explain the abbreviations used on the figure, after the title of the figure, namely L292.
Re: revised. Lines 291-294 in the revised manuscript.
- Discussion section should be better developed. Please discuss the importance of fucoidan on human health. Does consumption of plants (that were stored) containing fucoidan have any beneficial health effects? Do they influence the antioxidant capacity on humans or other mammals? Some experimental studies should be reminded in this regard – I suggest checking and referring to https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-020-07711-w and https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/9316751 Can the existence of fucoidan in plants constitute a public health measure to improve the general health status of the population?
Re: revised. Lines 301-304 in the revised manuscript.
- After L 365, please add a paragraph highlighting/detailing the strengths and the weakness of your research/results.
Re: revised. Lines 377-379 in the revised manuscript.
