We are truly grateful to the reviewers’ suggestions on English. Based on these
comments, we have made careful modifications on the manuscript.

Dear Editor:

We are truly grateful to yours and other reviewers’ critical comments and thoughtful suggestions. Based on these comments and suggestions, we have made careful modifications on the original manuscript. All changes made to the text are in red color. In addition, we have consulted native English speakers for paper revision before the submission this time. We hope the new manuscript will meet your magazine’s standard. Below you will find our point-by-point responses to the reviewers’ comments/ questions:
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Yours sincerely

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Dear Prof.****:
Thank you very much for your kindly comments on our manuscript (No******). Based on your and reviewer’s suggestions, we carefully revised the manuscript.
We are now sending the revised article for your re-consideration to publish in Journal of Plant Physiology. Please see our point to point responses to all your comments below, and the corresponding revisions in the body of manuscript, both marked in blue. We look forward to hearing form you soon for a favorable 8 decision.
Thank you again for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,
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Below, the original comments are in black, and our responses are in blue.

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Following typographical and grammatical errors in original manuscript have been removed and corrected:
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