Nat. Genet. 43, 1048–1050 (2011); published online 27 October 2011; corrected after print 27 April 2012

In the version of this article initially published, a study by Studer et al. was incorrectly cited as being by Deng et al. The correct sentence should read: “Studer et al. present a clear picture of how maize was domesticated by events operating at different scales: biological and cultural5.” The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.