User talk:Premaldesai05/sandbox

This looks great! One point of clarification on a reviewer comment - you don't need to list references in alphabetical order - you should list them in the order they appear in the text. Excellent contribution and very thoughtful reviews. Let me know if you have any questions. --Amille75 (talk) 05:38, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

General Comments: The take home message I got from this article is that Leymus mollis has specific characteristics, such as being a drought tolerant plant, that make it very useful and beneficial to society's food market. Also, this perennial plant can easily hybridize with traditional wheat species. I liked that the article focused primarily on the agricultural growth environment for the plant. Also, I liked learning about how the plant can grow and thrive in harsh environments such as dry and high salt content soils. One thing that can be improved in this article is to define specific scientific terms clearer, such as the GISH method. Also, adding more nutritional information about the perennial plant could be helpful. The only question I had when reading the article was whether or not the perennial plant is grown on its own or if farmers only use it to hybridize with traditional wheat plants.

Grammar: The grammar is correct, except that the specific epithet name (mollins) needs to be lowercase, not uppercase.

References: There were 5 correctly cited scientific journal references.

Reviewer: Jennie Horstmann

Hey, this is Anna Paffrath, I'm here to review your entry and make a few comments on your contribution!

a) The main take home message of this article is that Leymus mollis is a beneficial target in hybridization among wheat crops and can adapt to more extreme living conditions. These both make it a desirable crop to further investigate. I like that you focused on its benefits to food science, its ability to hybridize, significance of hybridization, and how it can be useful in changing environments. Some of what you have written is presented in a confusing way, as if there are a lot of random facts, but they don't flow together smoothly. It might be beneficial to read over your writing and try to summarize what the articles state in a way that's more agreeable. You might also want to separate your sections into "Hybridization" and "Adaptability". Leymus mollis is able to survive what type of salinity?

b) You misspell "pairing" in the second paragraph. The second sentence in the last paragraph is written in a confusing manner and might be considered a run-on.

c) There are five distinct references. Watch your italicizing, the titles of the journal should be distinct from the titles of the papers.

Overall good work tho! You provided some very useful information on this perennial!! - Anna Paffrath

The takeaway message I got from this entry is that Leymus mollis is a very promising wheat crop because of its ability to live in extreme environments, such as salt and drought areas, and because of its ability to hybridize with other wheat species. I liked how you went into pretty good detail about how the species can survive in harsh environments. Something that I think you might want to add is in the third paragraph when you are talking about its ability to survive in low nutrient enviornments you could go into more detail into what nutrients were not in this environment that the plant could survive without. Overall I thought you did a really good job on your entry though!

For grammar issues remember not to capitalize mollis and when you talk about “expressed sequence tags” in the last paragraph I am not sure if that needed to be all capitalized.

The citations look good, you might want to list them in alphabetical order though?

Overall great job!

-Melissa Saele