Erratum to: Planta DOI 10.1007/s00425-014-2205-0

Inadvertently, the grant detail was omitted in the Acknowledgments section of the officially published article. The missing information has now been included and the correct Acknowledgments should read:

Acknowledgments: The central instrumentation, microscopy facility and plant growth facility at NIPGR are highly acknowledged. We thank Mr. Pawan Kumar for performing the divergence time analysis. Technical assistance of Mr. Vinod Kumar is duly acknowledged. This work was supported by project schemes [BT/PR2171/AGR/36/687/2011 and Rapid Grant for Young Investigators (RGYI)] of the Department of Biotechnology, India, and the core research grant was from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India. The authors declare no conflict of interest exists.