Screening for Pea Germplasms Resistant to Fusarium Wilt Race 5

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Editor,

the manuscript "Screening for pea germplasms resistant to Fusarium wilt race 5 " by Dond Deng and colleagues in the improved form provides important information about Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi (Fop) race 5 in China and the screening results for new sources in developing cultivars with resistance to this pathogen.

In its present form, the manuscript is well readable, the ideas presented by the authors are easy to follow, and the new facts brought to the readers can be understandable.

 

Author Response

Thank you very much for providing much valuable and constructive comments and suggestions in these manuscripts. We felt all of the comments provided were highly helpful for revising and improving. We have studied the comments and suggestions carefully and revised our manuscript in detail according to the comments and suggestions that you had provided. There were also some minor discretionary revisions marked by blue color in this revised manuscript. Thanks again for your careful and professional advice.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The text of the article has been thoroughly revised, the comments have been taken into account.

Author Response

Thank you very much for providing much valuable and constructive comments and suggestions. We felt all of the comments provided were highly helpful for revising and improving the previous manuscript. We have studied the comments and suggestions carefully and revised our manuscript in detail according to the comments and suggestions that you had provided. We also made some minor discretionary revisions marked by blue color in this revised manuscript. Thanks for your good comment.

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This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript "Screening for pea germplasms resistant to Fusarium wilt race 5 " present data about Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. pisi (Fop) race 5 in China and the screening results for new sources in developing cultivars with resistance to this pathogen. The authors studied one of the most appealing areas of plant diseases, which should be explored, but there are a lot of flaws in the material and methods, experimental design, grammar, results presentation, and discussion.

Overall, the manuscript is very bed-readable, the ideas presented by the authors are difficult to follow and only a few new facts are brought to the readers. Almost the entire article should be rephrased and corrected.

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear colleagues.

This article concerns the varietal resistance of peas to fusarium wilt. The authors selected one of the Fusarium races and studied the resistance of more than 1000 plant samples, then distributing them into groups. Undoubtedly, this is a great and important work in terms of finding potential sources of disease resistance for breeding.
The article is written in clear language. There are some minor technical issues. For example,
Line 168 This test was repeated twice. – Is this number of repetitions enough?

Line 134 - Does the host-parasite relationship obey the gene-for-gene hypothesis? What is known about the genes of resistance of peas to fusarium and what is known about the virulence genes?

Line 149 - Have you tried to detect differences in the response of plants to the pathogen at an earlier stage?
Have you tried to use other races to differentiate varietal disease resistance?
With respect