Erratum to: Plant Cell Rep DOI 10.1007/s00299-010-0845-5

Unfortunately, the given and family name of all the authors have been interchanged in the Original paper. The names of the authors are now corrected.

Figure 5 of the original paper has been published wrongly with a shadow over it. The correct figure is displayed here.

Fig. 5
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Time course of DNA degradation. Lane 1 DNA marker; lanes 2 and 3 DNA from pistils excised from green flower buds and from white flower buds just before anthesis, respectively, showing no DNA degradation; lanes 4 and 5 DNA from pistils of open flowers and from flowers after petal abscission; lane 6 DNA extracted from pistils of dehiscent anthers, showing an evident DNA degradation pattern