Efficiency of Nitrogen Fertilization in Millet Irrigated with Brackish Water

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article 'EFFICIENCY OF NITROGEN FERTILIZATION IN MILLET IRRIGATED WITH BRACKISH WATER' is nicely written and provides valuable scientific information on stress factors for plant growth. The authors must address the following review comments-

Although minor, but the article needs some grammatical formatting.

The article needs overall formatting as well

The author should mention the average recommended application rate of nitrogen for millet production.

The information mentioned in the figures must be consistent with the figure description for example, Figure 4: dry matter vs dry mass.

Why does the leaf dry mass data for different irrigation water not presented in the graphical illustration?

 

Comments on the Quality of English Language

Although minor, but the article needs some grammatical formatting.

The article needs overall formatting as well.

Author Response

Dear, we accept all the suggestions made. However, some points need to be answered.

 

REVIEWER: Although minor, but the article needs some grammatical formatting.

AUTHOR: After the suggested corrections, we sent it to a company to review the English

REVIEWER:: Why does the leaf dry mass data for different irrigation water not presented in the graphical illustration?

 

AUTHOR: Because there was only an isolated effect of nitrogen doses treatment.

 

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The manuscript authored by Sousa et al. investigated/evaluated the physiological responses and agronomic performance of greenhouse cultured millet crops subjected to nitrogen fertilization and irrigation water salinity. The study demonstrated that salt stress increased leaf sodium levels but had a negative impact on stalk dry mass, panicle dry mass, leaf gas exchange, mineral element concentrations and water use efficiency. However, the use of lower salinity water associated with increased nitrogen fertilization favored the above-mentioned physiological parameters. The manuscript provides a scientific basis for a possible strategy to reduce the negative impact of salt stress associated with the nutrition of millet plants using nitrogen fertilization. Overall, the manuscript presents a clear rational, a good experimental design and data interpretation. I would like to recommend accepting after text editing. I’m listing some that need to edit in the comments on the quality of English language.

Comments on the Quality of English Language

	original	modified
Line 51	economic activities. in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil In addition, in many regions,	economic activities in the semi-arid Northeast of Brazil.  In addition, in many regions,
Line 55	affects	affect
Line 57	Na+	Na+
Line 69	Na+	Na+
Line 70	Cl-	Cl-
Line 100	By [19]	By Pereira et al.
Line 117	MO	OM
Line 117	CEes	ECse
Line 117		No “PST” in the table
Line 115		Please edit the table. The content is a bit cofusing
Line 122	By [22]	By Bernardo et al.
Line 127	even	event
Line 134	Methodology of [22]	Methodology from Rhoades et al.
Line 138	Methodology of [23]	Methodology from Silva et al.
Line 139	By [24]	By Brasilia et al.
Line 146	gypsum	gypsum.
Line 164	_The N	The N
Line 179-182 and Table 3 title		It may be better to just list all those variables’ full names only one time.
Line 203	CO2	CO2
Line 206	Mg 2+	Mg2+
Line 206	Na+	Na+
Line 206	Cl-	Cl-
Line 209	[31]	Co et al.
Line 210	CO2	CO2
Line 212	[12]	Sousa et al.
Line 241	[37]	[37].
Line 242	[31]	Co et al.
Line 245	[38]	Sousa et al.
Line 247	CO2	CO2
Line 247	H2O	H2O
Line 270	[40]	Hessini et al.
Line 271	NO3-	NO3-
Line 272	NH4+	NH4+
Line 272	[41]	Chen et al.
Line 272	[42]	Bianchet et al.
Line 275	[31]	Co et al.
Line 280	[43]	Sousa et al.
Line 282	[44]	Costa et al.
Line 287	significance	significant
Line 307	NO3-	NO3-
Line 312	[47]	[47]
Line 313	, found	, Sousa et al. found
Line 320	[48]	Ueda et al.
Line 322	[47]	Sousa et al.
Line 336	[40]	Hessini et al.
Line 343	(2022)	[47]
Line 346	(N, P, K+, Mg2+ and Ca2+)	(N, P, K+, Mg2+ and Ca2+)
Line 354	[40]
Line 360	Ca+	Ca2+
Line 362	[54]	Rodrigues et al.
Line 363	[55]	Calone et al.
Line 364	Sorghum biocolor	Sorghum biocolor

Author Response

Dear, we accept all the suggestions made. Below is the attached article for conference