Fungal Jasmonate as a Novel Morphogenetic Signal for Pathogenesis
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This is a well written manuscript that presents worthwhile information and was carried out with appropriate controls. I have a few very minor suggestions for improvement.
Figure 3C legend should explain what the 3 different panels/columns represent. They appear to be confocal > bright field > merge. That needs to be better described.
Line 390 has a few words that are italicized that should not be.
Line 505 - Need to define the term ROS here at first mention of the acronym.
Reference 53 is missing the full citation.
Author Response
Comments and Suggestions for Authors:
This is a well written manuscript that presents worthwhile information and was carried out with appropriate controls. I have a few very minor suggestions for improvement.
Author Response: Many thanks for the positive response to our manuscript, and for considering it important to the field of fungal cell biology and pathobiology.
Figure 3C legend should explain what the 3 different panels/columns represent. They appear to be confocal > bright field > merge. That needs to be better described.
Author Response: Many thanks for pointing this out. As suggested, we have now included a description for each panel shown in the Figure 3C legend. The sentence reads: Micrographs represent confocal image for GFP-Opr1 (left), brightfield (middle) and the merged (right) at the indicated stage of development in M. oryzae.
Line 390 has a few words that are italicized that should not be.
Author Response: Many thanks. The italicized words have now been changed to regular font.
Line 505 - Need to define the term ROS here at first mention of the acronym.
Reference 53 is missing the full citation.
Author Response: ROS has now been changed to “reactive oxygen species” in sentence 505.
The full citation for the dissertation cited in Reference 53 has now been provided.
Reviewer 2 Report
This is an excellent research work. It opened the way to further in-depth understanding of the the penetration peg formation and further steps in the disease process.
Author Response
Comments and Suggestions for Authors:
This is an excellent research work. It opened the way to further in-depth understanding of the penetration peg formation and further steps in the disease process.
Author Response: Many thanks for the affirmative and expedited response to our study, and for finding it to be significant in providing an in-depth molecular understanding of the initiation of blast disease in rice.