PLANT BIOLOGY. For the article “Abrogation of disease development in plants expressing animal antiapoptotic genes,” by M. B. Dickman, Y. K. Park, T. Oltersdorf, W. Li, T. Clemente, and R. French, which appeared in issue 12, June 5, 2001, of Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (98, 6957–6962; first published May 29, 2001; 10.1073/pnas.091108998), the authors note that the Bcl-2 was inserted in the 3′ UTR and consisted of noncoding RNA. Therefore, the pictures of the Bcl-2 leaves in Fig. 2, while technically harboring Bcl-2 DNA, did not contain the open reading frame and Bcl-2 protein. The results and conclusions based on Fig. 1B are therefore invalid.
