==== Front Front Plant Sci Front Plant Sci Front. Plant Sci. Frontiers in Plant Science 1664-462X Frontiers Media S.A. 10.3389/fpls.2023.1237555 Plant Science Retraction Retraction: Emergence of Asian endemic begomoviruses as a pandemic threat Frontiers Editorial Office * Approved by: Brigitte Mauch-Mani, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland *Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office, research.integrity@frontiersin.org 19 6 2023 2023 19 6 2023 14 123755509 6 2023 09 6 2023 Copyright © 2023 Frontiers Editorial Office 2023 Frontiers Editorial Office 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 Retraction of the Review Article Emergence of Asian endemic begomoviruses as a pandemic threat by Qureshi MA, Lal A, Nawaz-ul-Rehman MS, Vo TTB, Sanjaya GNPW, Ho PT, Nattanong B, Kil E-J, Jahan SMH, Lee K-Y, Tsai C-W, Dao HT, Hoat TX, Aye T-T, Win NK, Lee J, Kim S-M and Lee S (2022) Front. Plant Sci. 13:970941. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.970941 section-in-acceptancePlant Pathogen Interactions ==== Body pmcFollowing publication, concerns were raised to the journal regarding factual inaccuracies throughout the Review article text and errors in the data presented in Figure 3. Many of the references cited are also considered to be inappropriate or outdated. An investigation was conducted in accordance with Frontiers’ and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, whereby it was confirmed that the complaints were valid. This retraction was approved by the Chief Editors of Frontiers in Plant Science and the Chief Executive Editor of Frontiers. The authors agree to the retraction.