Erratum to: J Polym Environ (2010) 18:617–625 DOI 10.1007s10924-010-0205-0

The authorship of this article is changed to Rudolph Fredua-Agyeman, Ahmed Abdel-Megeed, and Rudolf Mueller. The remaining two authors Mourad A. M. Aboul-Soud and Salem S. Al-Deyab are acknowledged in the Acknowledgment section.

In the original publication, the author’s name Fredua-Agyeman Rudolph was misspelled and is corrected here.

Also, the new affiliations for the author’s are given below:

Rudolph Fredua-Agyeman

University of Alberta,

Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science,

Canola Breeding Group,

432D Agric/Proteomics and Genomics Lab,

Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5, Canada.

Ahmed Abdel-Megeed

Botany and Microbiology Department,

King Saud University,

P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451,

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Rudolf Mueller

Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH),

Biotechnology II, Room 1511, Denickestrasse 15 (K),

21073 Hamburg, Germany.

Corresponding author email: ru.mueller@tu-harburg.de

Acknowledgments:

We would like to thank Dr. Mourad A. M. Aboul-Soud (Abdul Rahman Al-Jeraisy Chair for DNA Research) and Dr. Salem S. Al-Deyab (Petrochemical Research Chair, Department of Chemistry) of the King Saud University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for reading and revising the manuscript.