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Retraction

Retraction: Efficacy of Zn-Aspartate in comparison with ZnSO4 and L-Aspartate in amelioration of drought stress in maize by modulating antioxidant defence; osmolyte accumulation and photosynthetic attributes

  • The PLOS ONE Editors

This article [1] was identified as being linked to a series of submissions for which PLOS noted concerns about authorship and potential competing interests.

In addition, we noted the following concerns:

  • The article’s figures are of poor resolution, and error bars appear similar across groups in several figures.
  • Figs 3 and 4 appear to be duplicates and the legend for Fig 3 does not align with the figure contents.
  • There are many instances in which p values are reported as 0.
  • Primary data were not provided with the article, contrary to the Data Availability Statement.

The authors provided higher resolution figures, including a replacement for Fig 3. They clarified that p values less than 0.001 were reported as 0.

The authors also stated that the individual-level data are no longer available. Consequently, the article does not comply with the PLOS Data Availability Policy and the error bar concerns cannot be resolved.

The PLOS ONE Editors retract this article due to the unresolved concerns.

The authors did not reply to the retraction notification or could not be reached.

Reference

  1. 1. Ali Q, Mazhar MW, Ishtiaq M, Hussain AI, Bhatti KH, Maqbool M, et al. (2021) Efficacy of Zn-Aspartate in comparison with ZnSO4 and L-Aspartate in amelioration of drought stress in maize by modulating antioxidant defence; osmolyte accumulation and photosynthetic attributes. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0260662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260662

Citation: The PLOS ONE Editors (2023) Retraction: Efficacy of Zn-Aspartate in comparison with ZnSO4 and L-Aspartate in amelioration of drought stress in maize by modulating antioxidant defence; osmolyte accumulation and photosynthetic attributes. PLoS ONE 18(2): e0281853. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281853

Published: February 10, 2023

Copyright: © 2023 The PLOS ONE Editors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.