Morphological, Cytological, and Molecular-Based Genetic Stability Analysis of In Vitro-Propagated Plants from Newly Induced Aneuploids in Caladium

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

The manuscript entitled “Morphological, cytological and molecular based genetic stability analysis of in vitro propagated plants from ‘Red Flash’ caladium aneuploids” was revised. There are some misconceptions such as “Aneuploidy” / “Aneuploid” in almost every part of the text. In the some sentences, there are inverted usages that weaken the meaning. I stated these in the step-by-step in the report and made some suggestions. The manuscript can be published after minor revisions. This revisions described in the revision report.

Kind Regards

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript ”Morphological, cytological and molecular-based genetic stability analysis of in vitro propagated plants from ‘Red Flash’ caladium aneuploids” is dealing with clonal fidelity of aneuploids multiplied by culture in vitro. Authors analyzed somaclonal variation of caladium aneuploids  at several levels (morphological, cytological and molecular) and revealed relatively high frequency of somaclonal variation especially from tetraploid aneuploidy caladium plants. The manuscript falls in a scope of the journal and can be accepted for publication after minor revision.

Here are listed some of the suggestions for authors for manuscript improvement:

1.      Lines 12-15; 19-21; 62-70. These are too long sentences. Try to get one scientific valuable information per sentence.

2.      Lines 234-238 Figure legend A-D: describe for each part which is SVT9 or SVT14.

3.      Line 259, Table 1: What means fancy leaves shape? You mean Arrowheaded or Saggitate?

4.      In Tables 2 and 3 I suggest to present results for SVT9 clones (wt and clones) and statistical differences separately from SVT14 (wt and clones).

5.      Line 93,115, 131/132,162, 175 Discussion section: Delete reference citation in text according to Chicago style. In MDPI journals references in text are cited according to ACS Style.

All words which are not appropriate are highlighted in text. 

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