Erratum to: Theor Appl Genet DOI 10.1007/s00122-016-2787-y

Unfortunately, there was a mistake in “Key message” (abstract section) of the original publication. The text should read “52.59-kb”.

The complete corrected sentence is given below:

Key message A major QTL for heading date, qHD5, was fine-mapped to a 52.59-kb region on the short arm of rice chromosome 5.

The original article was corrected.