Atmospheric methane levels increased over geological formations in Northern Siberia following a heat wave in 2020, suggesting that permafrost thaw releases methane from reservoirs.
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PLANT BIOLOGY Correction for “Construction of a male sterility system for hybrid rice breeding and seed production using a nuclear male sterility gene,” by Zhenyi Chang, Zhufeng Chen, Na Wang, Gang Xie, Jiawei Lu, Wei Yan, Junli Zhou, Xiaoyan Tang, and Xing Wang Deng, which appeared in issue 49, December 6, 2016, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (113:14145–14150; first published November 18, 2016; 10.1073/pnas.1613792113).
The authors note that the names of two reviewers were omitted from the reviewer footnotes. James Giovannoni (Cornell University) and Z. Jeffrey Chan (University of Texas) should be acknowledged as having reviewed this manuscript. The corrected reviewer footnotes appear below.
Contributed by Xing Wang Deng, August 23, 2016 (sent for review July 13, 2016; reviewed by Z. Jeffrey Chan, James Giovannoni, Yaoguang Liu, and Chuanqing Sun)
Reviewers: Z.J.C., University of Texas; J.G., Cornell University; Y.L., South China Agricultural University; and C.S., China Agricultural University.
Correction for Chang et al., Construction of a male sterility system for hybrid rice breeding and seed production using a nuclear male sterility gene
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