Erratum to: J Plant Growth Regul DOI 10.1007/s00344-013-9370-4

In the original publication of the article, a source of funding support was omitted from the acknowledgement section. The complete acknowledgement is given below:

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Nos. 31070443 and 30970523), the Research and Innovation Project for College Graduates of Jiangsu Province (No. CXZZ13_0414). We also express our great thanks to the reviewers and editorial staff for their time and attention.