Correction: Breman et al. Inheritance of Mitochondria in Pelargonium Section Ciconium (Sweet) Interspecific Crosses. Int. J. Plant Biol. 2024, 15, 586–598

Following publication, concerns were raised to the Editorial Office relating to a potential conflict of interest between one of the authors and the Academic Editor that supervised the peer-review of this article [1]. Adhering to our complaints policy, an investigation was completed by the Editorial Office, which confirmed a recent collaboration between one of the authors and the Academic Editor that could be perceived as a conflict of interest and was judged to not align with MDPI’s conflict of interest policy relating to the handling of Special Issue submissions (https://www.mdpi.com/special_issues_guidelines, accessed on 3 November 2025).

Consequently, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted a post-publication review of this article [1]. This included inviting an Editorial Board member to review whether the entire editorial process had been carried out as per standard MDPI policy (https://www.mdpi.com/editorial_process, accessed on 3 November 2025), assessing the quality of the peer-review and considering the appropriateness of the final decision made on this publication. Here, the Editorial Board member verified all elements of the editorial process and concluded that the acceptance and publication of this article was appropriate. As a result of this process, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board and the authors agreed to replace the existing Academic Editor listed on this publication with that of the Editorial Board member who conducted this post-publication review.

Additionally, in the original publication, there was a mistake in the Conflicts of Interest as published. The corrected Conflicts of Interest appears below.

• Conflicts of Interest: Author R.S. is employed at Syngenta NV. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

There was an error regarding the affiliation for Ronald Snijder. The updated affiliation should be: Syngenta Seeds BV, Cornelis Kuinweg 28, 1619 PE Andijk, The Netherlands.

In addition, the email of the author Joost Korver has been changed to joostwk@gmail.com.

The authors state that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editor. The original publication has also been updated.