Retraction to: Genes & Genomics (2017) 39:183–196 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13258-016-0488-1

The authors are retracting this article [1] because Figs. 1A, 1E and 1F have been taken without permission from the Master’s thesis of Qiaoling Wang, “The mechanism of Cd stress on the physiological and cytotoxicity of onion seedlings” submitted to the College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University in April 2014. All authors agree to this retraction.