Scientific Reports 5: Article number: 18067; published online: 14 December 2015 updated: 25 February 2016.

In this Article, Shireen K. Assem is incorrectly listed as being affiliated with ‘Biology Department, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah- 21955, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’. The correct affiliation is listed below:

Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt