A Highly Salt-Tolerant Bacterium Brevibacterium sediminis Promotes the Growth of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Seedlings
, M. Nazmul Hoque 4 and Tofazzal Islam 2,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript submitted by Rahman et al., titled "A Highly salt tolerant bacterium Brevibacterium sediminis promotes the growth of rice (Oryza sativa) seedling” evaluated the response of salt-tolerant bacterium under salt stresses on rice. Overall, the figure quality of the manuscript is shallow.
I have my comments listed below.
Comments
Ø The figures are of low quality, figure quality needs to be absolutely improved for acceptance of this paper.
Ø Table 2- how many replicates were used? Also mention how many plants per replicate were used. Is the fresh weight and dry weight per plant or for how many plants?
Ø Figure 5 and figure 7 need to have a significance tests and mention the number of replicates and number of plants per replicate.
Ø The effect of bacterial inoculation on salt tolerance needs to be tested at a little bit older stage than only for 10 days old seedlings.
Author Response
July 7, 2022
To,
Silverdew Mo
Special Issue Editor
Stresses, MDPI
Subject: Submission of revised manuscript (R1)
Submission ID: stresses-1777887
Manuscript title: A Highly salt tolerant bacterium Brevibacterium sediminis promotes the
growth of rice (Oryza sativa) seedling.
Dear Editor,
Thank you for the editor's decision letter dated on July 4, 2022. Appended to this letter is our
point-by-point responses to the comments raised by both reviewers. We would like to take this
opportunity to express our sincere thanks to the expert reviewers/editors who identified several
areas in our manuscript that were needed corrections as well as modifications. We also would like to cordially thank you for allowing us the change to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript.
We have revised and updated the manuscript with some new analysis as per reviewers’ suggestion. Please find all changes highlighted in RED color fonts in the revised manuscript. We have provided both track changed and highlighted versions of the manuscript for your kind reference. Enclosed please find our responses.
Best regards,
Nazmul Hoque, PhD
Associate Professor and The First Author
On behalf of the corresponding author
Email: nazmul90@bsmrau.edu.bd
Author Response File: 
Author Response.docx
Reviewer 2 Report
The author should better describe and support with data, other than seedlings, the fact that the isolated bacteria from salt soil induce somehow resistance to the rice plant.
Abstract: It could be given a wider importance to the research by considering that salinity is an important issue in several area rather than only in Bangladesh.
When you have a citation like "reported in [##]." put reported by Authors name [##]
Row 39 please delete "of plants"
Please change ""spp" into "spp."
row 71 by... You should indicate Author(s) name(s)
Section 4.1 the species used should be mentioned at the begging. So probably the rows from 430 on should be go at the beginning or better rewrite all.
Row 440 delete "in".
Section 4.5 it should be mentioned from where DNA were extracted.
Row 83 please delete "of the entire study" and "distinct"
Row 84 ad an "s" in "figure"
Row 84-86 is unclear please rewrite.
Row 86 are the isolate bacteria? please make it clear.
Figure 1 please add when the sample were collected (i.e. stage)
Figure 5 quality should be improved
Row 337 delete it or in case move to introduction
row 397 what is "1o"?
Row 397 delete "different"
Row 422 species?
Author Response
July 7, 2022
To,
Silverdew Mo
Special Issue Editor
Stresses, MDPI
Subject: Submission of revised manuscript (R1)
Submission ID: stresses-1777887
Manuscript title: A Highly salt tolerant bacterium Brevibacterium sediminis promotes the
growth of rice (Oryza sativa) seedling.
Dear Editor,
Thank you for the editor's decision letter dated on July 4, 2022. Appended to this letter is our
point-by-point responses to the comments raised by both reviewers. We would like to take this
opportunity to express our sincere thanks to the expert reviewers/editors who identified several
areas in our manuscript that were needed corrections as well as modifications. We also would like to cordially thank you for allowing us the change to resubmit a revised version of the manuscript.
We have revised and updated the manuscript with some new analysis as per reviewers’ suggestion. Please find all changes highlighted in RED color fonts in the revised manuscript. We have provided both track changed and highlighted versions of the manuscript for your kind reference. Enclosed please find our response letter.
Best regards,
Nazmul Hoque, PhD
Associate Professor and The First Author
On behalf of the corresponding author
Email: nazmul90@bsmrau.edu.bd
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
I think they have addressed most of my comments so revising and accepting is my suggestion.
