Following concerns expressed by a reader, the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Journal of Experimental Botany have taken the decision to retract the following papers. The articles are retracted due to concern over image manipulation and duplication.
1. Cucumber metal transport protein MTP8 confers increased tolerance to manganese when expressed in yeast and Arabidopsis thaliana Magdalena Migocka1, Anna Papierniak1, Ewa Maciaszczyk-Dziubińska2, Piotr Poździk1, Ewelina Posyniak1, Arnold Garbiec3, Sophie Filleur4
Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 65, Issue 18, October 2014, Pages 5367–5384, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru295
1Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Kanonia 6/8, 50–328 Wroclaw, Poland
2Department of Genetics and Cell Physiology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Kanonia 6/8, 50–328 Wroclaw, Poland
3Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Sienkiewicza 21, 50–335 Wroclaw, Poland
4Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 1 Avenue de la Terrasse, Saclay Plant Sciences Labex, 91198 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
2. Two metal-tolerance proteins, MTP1 and MTP4, are involved in Zn homeostasis and Cd sequestration in cucumber cells Magdalena Migocka1, Anna Kosieradzka1, Anna Papierniak1, Ewa Maciaszczyk-Dziubinska2, Ewelina Posyniak1, Arnold Garbiec3, Sophie Filleur4
Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 66, Issue 3, February 2015, Pages 1001–1015, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru459
1Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Kanonia 6/8, 50–328 Wroclaw, Poland
2Department of Genetics and Cell Physiology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Kanonia 6/8, 50–328 Wroclaw, Poland
3Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Sienkiewicza 21, 50–335 Wroclaw, Poland
4Institut des Sciences du Végétal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 1 Avenue de la Terrasse, Saclay Plant Sciences Labex, 91198 Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
3. Metal tolerance protein MTP6 affects mitochondrial iron and manganese homeostasis in cucumber Magdalena Migocka1, Ewa Maciaszczyk-Dziubinska1, Karolina Małas1, Ewelina Posyniak1, Arnold Garbiec2
Journal of Experimental Botany, Volume 70, Issue 1, 1 January 2019, Pages 285–300, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery342
1Department of Molecular Plant Physiology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Kanonia 6/8, 50–328 Wroclaw, Poland
2Department of Animal Developmental Biology, Wroclaw University, Institute of Experimental Biology, Sienkiewicza 21, 50–335 Wroclaw, Poland