Front. Plant Sci. Frontiers in Plant Science Front. Plant Sci. 1664-462X Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpls.2026.1737693 Correction Correction: Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing of phytoene desaturase in Musa-AAA: a critical step for genetic improvement of East African highland bananas KalungiFrank 1 Conceptualization Data curation Formal analysis Investigation Methodology Software Writing – original draft Writing – review & editing MulindwaJulius 2 Methodology Supervision Validation Writing – review & editing MuiruriSamwel Kariuki 3 Formal analysis Methodology Writing – review & editing NtuiValentine Otang 3 Methodology Supervision Writing – review & editing MustafaAbubakar Sadik 4 Methodology Supervision Validation Writing – review & editing NamanyaPriver Bwesigye 1 Funding acquisition Project administration Resources Supervision Writing – review & editing KubiribaJerome 1 Funding acquisition Project administration Writing – review & editing TripathiLeena 3 Formal analysis Methodology Supervision Writing – review & editing BarekyeAlex 1 Project administration Resources Writing – review & editing TindamanyireJimmy Moses 1 * † Conceptualization Funding acquisition Investigation Methodology Project administration Resources Supervision Validation Writing – review & editing National Agricultural Research Laboratories, National Agricultural Research Organisation, Kampala, Uganda Department of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya Department of Plant Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Correspondence: Jimmy Moses Tindamanyire, tindajm@gmail.com

Present address: Jimmy Moses Tindamanyire, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda

 29 01 2026 2026 17 1737693 02 11 2025 13 01 2026 Copyright © 2026 Kalungi, Mulindwa, Muiruri, Ntui, Mustafa, Namanya, Kubiriba, Tripathi, Barekye and Tindamanyire. 2026 Kalungi, Mulindwa, Muiruri, Ntui, Mustafa, Namanya, Kubiriba, Tripathi, Barekye and Tindamanyire https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Correction on Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing of phytoene desaturase in Musa-AAA: a critical step for genetic improvement of east African highland bananas By Kalungi F, Mulindwa J, Muiruri SK, Ntui VO, Mustafa AS, Namanya PB, Kubiriba J, Tripathi L, Barekye A and Tindamanyire JM (2025) Front. Plant Sci. 16:1677409. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1677409 CRISPR/Cas9 Banana PDS Genome-editing Carotenoids Nakitembe guide-RNA section-at-acceptance Plant Biotechnology

Samwel Kariuki Muiruri, Valentine O. Ntui and Leena Tripathi were omitted as authors in the published article. The correct author list reads: “Frank Kalungi, Julius Mulindwa, Samwel Kariuki Muiruri, Valentine O. Ntui, Abubakar Sadik Mustafa, Priver Bwesigye Namanya, Jerome Kubiriba, Leena Tripathi, Alex Barekye and Jimmy Moses Tindamanyire”. The affiliation “International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya” has been included as affiliation 3.

The Author Contributions Statement has been corrected to read:

“FK: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. JM: Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing. SM: Perform sequencing & Data Analysis. VN: Construct Preparation, Supervision. AM: Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing. PN: Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing –review & editing. JK: Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing. LT: Methodology, Sequencing and Data Analysis, Supervision. AB: Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing. JT: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing.”

The original version of this article has been updated.

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