Erratum to: J Plant Res DOI 10.1007/s10265-009-0262-4

By mistake, the micrograph for Fig. 1e was also used for Fig. 5e. The correct micrograph for Fig. 5e is shown below.

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An erroneous description was given in the third paragraph of the section “Analysis of aneuploidy transmission in tetraploid asy1” under “Results”. The second sentence of this paragraph should read:

Chromosome counting indicated that about 90% of the backcrossed seeds analyzed have an increased or reduced number of chromosomes when tetraploid asy1 was the pollen recipient, and about half of these seeds show a gain of chromosomes.