Correction to: Nature Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0744-x, published online 11 August 2020.

In the version of this Comment originally published, in the penultimate paragraph of the section “Steps towards global phytosanitary research coordination” the second sentence incorrectly defined IPPC as ‘Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’, though it was correctly defined earlier as ‘International Plant Protection Convention’; the sentence has now been corrected to read “Ideally, they should benefit from the reputation of a United Nations mandate convention, such as the IPPC…”.