Correction to: Theor Appl Genet (2017) 130:1569–1585 DOI 10.1007/s00122-017-2911-7

The article “Incorporating pleiotropic quantitative trait loci in dissection of complex traits: seed yield in rapeseed as an example”, written by J. Zou et al, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 130, issue 8, page 1569–1585 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2017 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.