Adaptation of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) to Australian Environments
, Harmohinder S. Dhammu 1,*, Mario Francesco D’Antuono 1, David Troldahl 2, Ian Biggs 3, Callen Thompson 4, Mark Warmington 1, Amanda Pearce 5 and Darshan L. Sharma 1,6,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I consider that the research has a grat scientific robustness. Howeber, there are some error in the paper, which are noted in the attached document. I consider it important to put the conclusions section.
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Reviewer 2 Report
I have some suggestions and comments that should be clarified.
Abstract
Well described and clear.
Introduction
1) Well described and set up the situation for introducing and testing several quinoa genotypes
in Australia.
Materials and methods
1) Please correct the name of genotype in Table 1,
PI 470932 Pasan Ralle
It should be “Pasankalla” instead of “Pasan Ralle”
1) PI470932 as corresponds to ecotype “Pasankalla”, the grain is brown color with red perisperm, if small seeds appears, it means that segregation is happening. Plant of Pasankalla ecotype is purple in physiological maturity.
2) Purple panicle colour and compact is the typical shape, and in Figure 2, shows somehow the typical purple colour during flowering.
Results
1) I wonder if there was any effect of location on saponine content in quinoa genotypes – I see that there were differences in protein content, even similar quinoa genotype with different protein content in two different location, perhaps is due to fertilization.
2) In Table 4, is not clear about genotypes BEW, JC1 and the genotypes origin from Chile – do they are sweet in grain? Why do not have a description sweetness or with saponine?
3) In Table 11 – why only the description on protein content in seeds only for two locations and not for Katherine, Manjimup and Bool Lagoon – is there any explanation in to show only two locations? Could you explain and also include in Discussions.
Discussions
1) Would be nice if there is an explanation of saponine content in different locations were same
as reported in Materials and Methods
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