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Since the publication of this article, the authors have noticed that certain textual descriptions in the Results and discussion section and in the caption of Fig. 1 did not accurately match the plotted values and diet/species labels in Fig. 1. The figure panels and underlying data are correct; the corrections are limited to the accompanying text and figure caption. The correct content is as follows:
1. In the "Auxins and cytokinins in frass" section and the Fig. 1b caption, the cytokinin panels should be described with the y-axis in µg/g, with values corresponding to ng/g-range concentrations. It should be mealworm rather than superworm that had higher cytokinin levels.
2. In the Fig. 1 caption and the "Jasmonates and salicylates in frass" section, references to "striped bars" should be removed. Elevated JA levels in mealworm frass should be attributed particularly to the PE + bran diet, rather than to the PS + bran + suc diet. The sucrose-related increase in mealworm frass should refer to JA-Ile, not JA, with PE + bran + suc yielding higher JA-Ile than PE + bran. Superworm JA should be described as showing a modest plastic-associated increase.
3. In the Fig. 1d caption and the "Jasmonates and salicylates in frass" section, SA accumulation should be described as species- and diet-dependent. Baseline SA in bran-fed larvae should be described as low. Statements that sucrose had negligible effects on SA should be revised to refer, where applicable, to SAG rather than SA. The statement that PS-fed superworms had peak SA should be corrected to PE-fed superworms, and the related control and mealworm comparison should be revised accordingly.
These corrections do not affect the figure panels, the underlying data, or the article's overall conclusion.
The authors would like to apologize for these errors. The original article has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.
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# Authors contributed equally: Haojie Lin, Wan Xu
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Lin H, Xu W, Zeng Y, Zhou Z, Wong A, et al. 2026. Author Correction: Worm frass phytohormones from plastic waste. Plant Hormones 2: e016 doi: 10.48130/ph-0026-0015
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