Bio-Circular Perspective of Citrus Fruit Loss Caused by Pathogens: Occurrences, Active Ingredient Recovery and Applications
, Jiraporn Sangta 1,3,†, Pirawan Chaiwan 1,4, Pornchai Rachtanapun 5,6,7, Sasithorn Sirilun 2,8, Korawan Sringarm 6,9, Sarinthip Thanakkasaranee 5,6,7 and Sarana Rose Sommano 1,4,6,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Citrus fruit is one of the major fruit crops with large production annually and globally. During the pre- and post-harvest stage of citrus fruit, production estimated more than 20% of fruit biomass is lost. Therefore, exploration of citrus fruit biomass is needed. The author’s study would be an important finding for further utilization of citrus fruit biomass as citrus post-harvest coating materials to improve citrus fruit quality.
Introduction:
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- Line 91: Give detailed information about abiotic stresses and the example.
Discussion:
- Line 131: Why P. citrophthora attacks aerial plant parts more frequently than P. parasitica? Which one has the worst effect?
- Line 145: Give detailed information about distinct temperatures of Ca. L. americanus.
- Line 225: Why does spraying the copper compound provide the best result during the fall and winter?
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- Line 535: How do the mechanisms reduce the negative effect of chemical and mechanical stresses by coating?
Overall:
- Please consider checking the punctuation and the unit.
Author Response
From: Pattarapol Khamsaw
Plant Bioactive Compound Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Re: response to reviewer comments and suggestions on reviewers’ reports of manuscript Horticulturae-1842950
Dear guest editor
We are gratefully appreciated the reviewers for their advice and thoughtful comments made to our manuscript. We have carefully taken their comments into consideration in preparing our revision, which has resulted in a paper that is clearer and more compelling. Below are our responses (in red type) to the editor and reviewer’s comments.
Reviewer 1:
Citrus fruit is one of the major fruit crops with large production annually and globally. During the pre- and post-harvest stage of citrus fruit, production estimated more than 20% of fruit biomass is lost. Therefore, exploration of citrus fruit biomass is needed. The author’s study would be an important finding for further utilization of citrus fruit biomass as citrus post-harvest coating materials to improve citrus fruit quality.
Authors: Thank you very much once again for the time and effort made to this manuscript.
Introduction:
- Line 74: 140 million per year? In which area?
Authors: This was the global picture. The information has been added
- Line 82: What situations can make the citrus tree in stress conditions?
Authors: The stresses which may come in the forms of pathogens and abiotic stress such as salt stress. We have revised the sentences accordingly.
- Line 91: Give detailed information about abiotic stresses and the example.
Authors: The examples from the references have been added.
Discussion:
- Line 131: Why P. citrophthora attacks aerial plant parts more frequently than P. parasitica? Which one has the worst effect?
Authors: This because P. parasitica does not produce aerial sporangia but P. citrophthora and other species does, therefore P. citrophthora may give worse effect to citrus tree.
- Line 145: Give detailed information about distinct temperatures of Ca. L. americanus.
Authors: It prefers lower temperature between 17-27 °C. The information has been added.
- Line 225: Why does spraying the copper compound provide the best result during the fall and winter?
Authors: This is to protect the pant from infection during late winter/ spring. The information is added.
- Line 282: 20.0-50.0μm should be written with space - 20.0-50.0 μm
Authors: It has been revised.
- Line 535: How do the mechanisms reduce the negative effect of chemical and mechanical stresses by coating?
Authors: The mechanism for protect and prevent has been added.
Overall:
- Please consider checking the punctuation and the unit.
Authors: We have gone through these accordingly.
Author Response File: 
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Reviewer 2 Report
Dear Authors,
The topic of the review is very interesting and innovative considering social consequences. The review is well-structured, but some oversights related to layout, grammar or typing error exist. I suggest a language check and conforming the manuscript to the format.
In my opinion the manuscript could be improve, so I added some specific suggestions in the attached file hoping they might be useful to improve it.
Kind regards.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
From: Pattarapol Khamsaw
Plant Bioactive Compound Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Re: response to reviewer comments and suggestions on reviewers’ reports of manuscript Horticulturae-1842950
Dear guest editor
We are gratefully appreciated the reviewers for their advice and thoughtful comments made to our manuscript. We have carefully taken their comments into consideration in preparing our revision, which has resulted in a paper that is clearer and more compelling. Below are our responses (in red type) to the editor and reviewer’s comments.
Reviewer 2:
The topic of the review is very interesting and innovative considering social consequences. The review is well-structured, but some oversights related to layout, grammar or typing error exist. I suggest a language check and conforming the manuscript to the format.
In my opinion the manuscript could be improve, so I added some specific suggestions in the attached file hoping they might be useful to improve it.
Authors: Thank you very much for your effort to review this manuscript. We believe that after this revision, it does improve the quality of the manuscript, please find the response point- to-point to your comment as in the pdf file.
Once again, thank you very much for considering the manuscript and I hope with all these changes and improvements, the manuscript would meet the standard for publication of the journal.
Regards
Pattarapol Khamsaw
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
