The authors have retracted the article "Natarajan, N., Sundararajan, S., Suresh, C.P. et al. In vitro somatic embryogenesis from immature female flower of Musa AAB cv. Chenichampa and molecular analysis of transcript factors (TFs) during somatic embryogenesis. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 142, 339–351 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-020-01866-7" because subsequent experiments revealed that the majority of in vitro plants regenerated through somatic embryogenesis, especially after hardening, were found to contain somaclonal variations. The authors had confirmed the genetic stability in in vitro raised plants in a pool of regenerated plantlets as mentioned in the original article during the initial experiments in replicates. However, at a later stage during the acclimatization process a large pool of in vitro plants previously shown to have no genetic variations were found to lack genetic stability. Since this affects a key parameter of this study (i.e. the ability to produce true-to-type plants), the article may mislead the scientific community. The authors believe that the genetic stability of in vitro raised plants through the tissue culture process is very important and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused.

作者撤回了文章“ Natarajan，N.，Sundararajan，S.，Suresh，CP等人。从Musa AAB cv。Chenichampa的未成熟雌花中进行的体外体细胞胚胎发生和体细胞胚胎发生过程中转录因子（TFs）的分子分析。 Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult 142，339-351（2020）。https://doi.org/10.1007/s11240-020-01866-7“，因为随后的实验表明大多数体外植物通过体细胞胚发生再生，特别是在硬化，发现包含体细胞克隆变异。作者已在重复实验的初始实验中，如原始文章中所述，在再生小苗池中证实了体外培育植物的遗传稳定性。然而，在适应过程的后期，发现一大批以前没有遗传变异的体外植物缺乏遗传稳定性。由于这影响了这项研究的关键参数（即产生符合实际类型的植物的能力），因此本文可能会误导科学界。作者认为，体外培养植物通过组织培养过程的遗传稳定性非常重要，对于由此给您带来的任何不便，我们深表歉意。