Plant-Associated Novel Didymellaceous Taxa in the South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China)
, Dhanushka N. Wanasinghe 4, Mingkwan Doilom 1, Steven L. Stephenson 5, Jiage Song 1, Wei Dong 1,* and Biao Xu 1,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Suggestions and corrections are found in the attachement.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear Sri /Madam.
Thank you for your valuable suggestion on my manuscript
Plant-associated novel didymellaceous taxa in the south China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China).
I corrected all the suggestions you made on My MS.
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
Point 1: Currently, the family encompasses more than 5,400 species in more than 31 accepted genera [12–14] Line 42
Response 1: It was change into 44 genera acording to the outline of fungi 2022.
Point 2: They are mostly plant pathogens Line 44-49
Response 2: It was change into some of are plant pathogens.
Point 3: author abbreviations should be used. Missing for: Allophoma tropica Line 57
Response 3: It was corrected to Allophoma tropica (R. Schneid. & Boerema) Qian Chen & L. Cai.
Point 4: Missing dot behind: Senanayake et al Line 73
Response 4: It was corrected adding dot after Senanayake et al.
Point 5: correct size of: the RNA polymerase II subunit (rpb2) gene and Line 92
Response 5: It was change into normal font size.
Point 6: Author abbreviations are missing for: Leptosphaeria conoidea and Leptosphaeria
doliolum Line 111-112
Response 6 : It was corrected to Leptosphaeria conoidea (De Not.) Sacc. and Leptosphaeria doliolum (Pers.) Ces. & De Not.
Point 7: Author abbreviations are missing for Stagonosporopsis astragali Line 152
Response 7: It was change into Stagonosporopsis astragali (Cooke & Harkn.) Aveskamp, Gruyter & Verkley.
Point 8: Author abbreviations are missing for Remotididymella ageratinae Line 159
Response 8: It was change into Remotididymella ageratinae H.B. Zhang, A.L. Yang & L. Chen
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Point 9: Newly generated sequences should be marked in bold in the Table 2 as indicated by the
captions below the table Line 161
Response 9: It was marked and bold in the table.
Point 10: Author abbreviations are missing for Allophoma labilis Line 192
Response 10: It was change into Allophoma labilis (Sacc.) Qian Chen & L. Cai.
Point 11: Author abbreviations are missing for Allo. pterospermicola and genus should be used as A. Line 232
Response 11: It was change into A. pterospermicola
Response 11: It was change into A. pterospermicola Qian Chen & L. Cai
Point 12: missing for: Allo. thunbergiae and use A. thunbergiae Line 233
Response12: It was change into A. thunbergiae.
Response12: It was change into A. thunbergiae Jun Yuan & Yong Wang.
Point 13: Change italics style in Type species for regular style Line 241
Response 13: It was change regular style.
Point 14: Author abbreviations are missing for: P. pereupyrena Line 242
Response 14: It was change into P. pereupyrena Gruyter, Noordel. & Boerema.
Point 15: Author abbreviations are missing for also for: E. iranica, E. multirostrata; Remove highlights of percentages % Line 274
Response 15: It was change into Ectophoma multirostrata (P.N. Mathur, S.K. Menon & Thirum.) Valenz.-Lopez, Cano, Crous, Guarro & Stchigel and E. Iranica M. Mehrabi, Larki & Farokhinejad.
Response 15: Highlights % was removed.
Point 16: Behind first author abbreviation is duplicity: Kular., & Use only comma Line 251
Response 16: It was changed.
Point 17: Etymology in italics change style for regular Line 253
Response 17: It was change into regular font.
Point 18: Add author abbreviations R. bauhiniae Line 308
Response 18: It was change into R. bauhiniae Jayasiri, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde
Point 19: For Remotididymella fici-microcarpae use bold style Line 314
Response 19: It was change into bold.
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Point 20: At the end of the sentence use . (dot) Line 370
Response 20: It was inserted.
Point 21: Author abbreviations are missing for Stagonosporopsis vannaccii; Line 451
Response 21: It was change into Stagonosporopsis vannaccii Baroncelli, Cafà, Castro, Boufleur & Massola.
Point 22: Author abbreviations are missing for S. cucurbitacearum Line 452
Response 22: It was change into Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum (Fr.) Aveskamp, Gruyter & Verkley.
Point 23: Author abbreviations are missing for Stagonosporopsis pogostemonis Line 454
Response 23: It was change into M. Luo, Y.H. Huang & Manawas.
Point 1: Use correct font and size for: 99 Line 511
Response 24: It was change into body font size.
Point 2: without italics: sp. nov Line 530
Response 25: It was change into regular font.
Point 3: delete dot: Dermatology. 1981 Line 531
Response 26: It was corrected.
Point 4: Use correct font and size for: 470. Line 596
Response 27: It was corrected.
Point 5: reference no. 65 is not on correct line and in correct style Line 629
Response 28: It was change into correct reference number.
Best regards
Nuwan
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper by Kularathnage et al., is a good piece of work, well written, easy to read; the experimental plan and methods are appropriate and up to date. My only concern is on the sampling procedure that should be better described: what are the materials sampled? infected plant material? which part? stems? leaves? how have been collected? what sterile procedure and how they brought the materials to the pab and preserved them until being analysed? Few further comments and corrections are along the text attached
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
Dear Sri /Madam.
Thank you for your valuable suggestion on my manuscript
Plant-associated novel didymellaceous taxa in the south China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China).
I corrected all the suggestions you made on My MS.
Point 1: What specimens? Infected plant material? Please specify. What was the exact sampling procedure? sterile sampling? specimens preserved in sterile bags? Line 62
Response 1: It was change into Specimens were detached from the host using sterile blades and packed in sterilized paper bags.
Point 2: What samples (infected plant material? Stems, leaves? and how did you carried them to the lab? sterile sampling? sterile procedure Line 69
Response 2: It was change into The collected dead samples (petioles, sepals and stems) were brought to the laboratory in sterilized paper bags.
Point 3: Font italica Line 251
Response 3: It was changed into italics.
Point 4: scale bar Line352
Response 4: It alredy mention starting from d and end with g.
Point 5: mediaThere
Response 5: It was change into media. There adding fulstop.
Point 6: correct numbering Line 626
Response 6 : It was corrected removing number 1.
Best regards
Nuwan
