Correction to: Theoretical and Applied Genetics (2019) 132:1815–1831 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00122-019-03318-z

Unfortunately, the history details and the name of the communicating editor were incorrectly published in the original publication. The complete correct details are given below.

Received: 30 May 2018/Accepted: 1 September 2018/Published online: 26 March 2019

Communicated by Evans Lagudah.