Yuhng Zhng, Hiping Du, Tintin Zho, Chunmei Lio, Tu Feng, Jun Qin, Bohui Liu,Fnjing Kong, Zhijun Che*, Liyu Chen,*

a Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Adaptation and Molecular Design, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Editing, Innovative Center of Molecular Genetics and Evolution, School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, Guangdong, China

b Hebei Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Breeding, National Soybean Improvement Center Shijiazhuang Sub-Center, Huang-Huai-Hai Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Soybean, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Cereal and Oil Crops, Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050035, Hebei, China

c School of Ecological Engineering, Guizhou University of Engineering Science, Bijie 551700, Guizhou, China

d School of Agriculture, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, Ningxia, China

e College of Life Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, Hebei, China

The authors regret to report a mistake in the text and an associated change necessary to section 3.6 of the paper.

On page 1766 in the right-hand column,line 4,the heading of subsection 3.6‘‘GmWRKY40 represses the expression of PR genes”should be changed to ‘‘GmWRKY40 promotes the expression of PR genes”.

The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.