Correction to: Nature Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0615-5, published online 13 March 2020.

In the version of this Perspective originally published, in the graphs labelled ‘Punjab’ in Figs. 4 and 6, the black curve mistakenly presented yield data for all of India instead of the yield data for only the state of Punjab, and, furthermore, a production error in Fig. 4 led to the graph labelled ‘Haryana’ being a duplicate of the ‘Rajasthan’ graph. The original and corrected Figs. 4 and 6 are shown below. In Fig. 5, the left y-axis label ‘Yields (kg ha–1)’ and the right y-axis label ‘Fertilizer use (kg ha–1)’ were switched. These errors have now been corrected in the Perspective.

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Original and Corrected. Graphs for Punjab and Haryana.

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Original and Corrected. Graph for Punjab.