PLANT BIOLOGY Correction for “Suppression of gene silencing: A general strategy used by diverse DNA and RNA viruses of plants,” by Olivier Voinnet, Yvonne M. Pinto, and David C. Baulcombe, which appeared in issue 24, November 23, 1999, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (96:14147–14152; first published November 23, 1999; 10.1073/pnas.96.24.14147).
The authors note, “The rRNA loading panels in Figs. 1D and 2D were inadvertently duplicated by Olivier Voinnet. Part of the image in Fig. 2D was also used in Figs. 3C and 5C, as explained in the respective legends. The experiments for Figs. 2, 3, and 5 were all run on the same agarose gel and blotted onto the same filter, to allow their direct comparison through the common reference dilution series seen in Figs. 2D, 3C, and 5C. The samples in Fig. 1D were run and blotted independently and it is therefore likely that the rRNA loading image in Fig. 1D, but not that in Fig. 2D, is erroneous. We no longer have the original files used for this paper and we are not able to provide the correct rRNA loading control to Fig. 1D. We recognize, therefore, that the equal loading of the samples in the figure is now not supported by the presented data. However, we are confident that the conclusions from the figure about the geminiviral suppressor AC2 are correct, as that interpretation was later confirmed in multiple independent publications.”