Plant Physiology Preview, 2015
Nie S., Yue H., and Xing D. (2015) A Potential Role for Mitochondrial Produced Reactive Oxygen Species in Salicylic Acid-Mediated Plant Acquired Thermotolerance. Plant Physiology Preview (http://dx.doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00719).
The above article is being retracted by Plant Physiology, which issues the following statement:
After publication of the article on October 15, 2015, as a Plant Physiology Preview article, we were alerted to the fact that Figure 9 and a considerable amount of text in the “Results” and “Discussion” sections were identical (or nearly identical) to material in an article previously published by the same authors in PLoS ONE (Mitochondrial-Derived Reactive Oxygen Species Play a Vital Role in the Salicylic Acid Signaling Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana; http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119853). The authors did not cite the PLoS ONE article in the Plant Physiology article, nor did they indicate that Figure 9 had been duplicated from this earlier publication.
The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) invoked its ethics in publishing policies to evaluate this instance of self-plagiarism. On the basis of available submission and publication dates for the two articles, ASPB concluded that because the PLoS ONE paper was accepted for publication on January 16, 2015, more than 4 months before the Plant Physiology article was submitted on May 26, 2015, it was necessary to retract the Plant Physiology article in its entirety.