BMC Plant Biology volume 15, Article number: 293 (2015)
The Original Article was published on 08 April 2014
The publishers of this journal are publishing this Expression of Concern because attribution for the synthesis and design of the luc* and Renluc* coding sequences in this article [1] is under dispute.
The correct table and description of the method set out in Table S1 can be found in this article [2].
The University of Queensland advises that there has been no academic misconduct but the wording of any erratum remains under dispute.
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Patel, J., Kowalczuk, M. Expression of concern: Synthetic versions of firefly luciferase and Renilla luciferase reporter genes that resist transgene silencing in sugarcane. BMC Plant Biol 15, 293 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-015-0671-6
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