Correction: Guo et al. Characterization and Evolutionary Analyses Reveal Differential Selection Pressures on PGIc and PGIp During Domestication in Castor Bean. Horticulturae 2025, 11, 569

Text Correction

There was an error in the original publication [1]. We made a mistake in the description of the p value in the LRTs of RcPGIp, which would affect the readers’ understanding of our results. A correction has been made to Section 3 Results, Section 3.4. Evolutionary Analysis Revealed Different Selection Pressures on RcPGIc and RcPGIp During Population Differentiation, Paragraph 3.

As this paragraph is short, we rewrote paragraph 3 “As shown in Table 3, no significant evidence of positive selection in the CDS region in RcPGIp was detected through the LRTs of M3 vs. M0, M2a vs. M1a, or M8 vs. M7 (p > 0.05). Combined with the results that significant signatures of selection at the gene’s DNA sequence level were only detected in RcPGIp from the wild population (Table 2), this gene may not have undergone positive selection during domestication.” as follows:

“As shown in Table 3, although the LRTs revealed statistically significant results in two model comparisons, M2a vs. M1a and M8 vs. M7 (p < 0.05), Bayes Empirical Bayes (BEB) analysis failed to detect any site under significant positive selection in the CDS region of RcPGIp, indicating that no amino acid site has experienced positive selection at RcPGIp. In addition, Tajima’s D and ML-HKA tests detected selection signatures only in the wild population, but not in the cultivated population, suggesting that RcPGIp may have experienced selective pressure at the DNA sequence level, but did not experience positive selection at the protein level during domestication.”

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