Erratum to: Mol Genet Genomics (2013) 288(3–4):101–110 DOI 10.1007/s00438-012-0732-6

In the original publication, one of the grant project numbers, NSF of China grant (Y211121N01) in the Acknowledgments section has been incorrectly published.

The corrected Acknowledgments should read as:

We would like to thank Datson Paul (The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd) for his critical comments and suggestions, Quan Zhang (Peking University, China) and Xiaohong Yao for their helpful discussions, and Fei Han and Xiaoli Liu for help with crossing experiments and cultivation. This project was funded by the project (Y152091t02) of ‘Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences’ and NSF of China grant (31101520).

The authors apologize for this error.