Retraction: 'An ~400 kDa membrane-associated complex that contains one molecule of the resistance protein Cf-4' by Susana Rivas, Tatiana Mucyn, Harrold A. van den Burg, Jacques Vervoort and Jonathan D. G. Jones

Abstract

The above article, published online on 26 March 2002 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), and in Volume 29, pp. 783-796 has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor-in-Chief, Christoph Benning, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The authors have requested that it be retracted because it contains a substantial number of inappropriate image manipulations. These manipulations consist of the reuse or duplication of images, both within the above article and with another manuscript published previously in The Plant Cell (Rivas et al., 2002b). Specific problems with the manuscripts include: The duplication of immunoblot bands in The Plant Journal Figure 4C and The Plant Cell Figure 3 row 3, The Plant Cell Figure 4A row 1, The Plant Cell Figure 4C. The Plant Journal Figure 4B Cf-9 c-myc band is duplicated in The Plant Journal Figure 4C Cf-9:TAP band under the 475 kDa marker. The first four lanes of Figure 4A row 3 in The Plant Journal are a duplication of lanes 23, 24, 25, and 26 in Figure 4A row 2 in The Plant Cell. The Plant Journal Figure 7B lanes 1&2 and lanes 4&5 are duplicates of each other and are duplicated from Figure 7B lanes 1 and 2 in The Plant Cell. The Plant Journal Figure 7C is a duplication from Figure 7C in The Plant Cell.

References: Rivas, S., Mucyn, T., van den Burg, H.A., Vervoort, J. and Jones, J.D.G. (2002a) An ∼400 kDa membrane-associated complex that contains one molecule of the resistance protein Cf-4. Plant J. 29, 783-796. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-313X.2002.01254.x. Rivas, S., Romeis, T. and Jones, J.D.G. (2002b) The Cf-9 disease resistance protein is present in an ∼420-Kilodalton heteromultimeric membrane-associated complex at one molecule per complex. Plant Cell, 14, 689-702. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.010357.