Article title: “Electrical Transfer of Molecule Information into Water, its Storage, and Bioeffects on Plants and Bacteria”
Authors: I. Jerman, R. Ruzic, R. Krašovec, M. Škarja, and L. Mogilnicki
Bibliometrics: Volume 24, Issue 3, pages 341–353 (2009)
DOI: 10.1080/15368370500381620
Since publishing “Electrical transfer of molecule information into water, its storage, and bio-effects on plants and bacteria,” one of the authors (Rok Krašovec) performed an extensive research on bacterial mutation rates. His recent results (published in Nature Communications, 5, 3742, 2014) suggest that sensitivity of adaptive mutations to a specific signal from Mg ion called information imprint of MgSO4 (see Figure 5 in Jerman et al., 2005) might be at least partially due to the bacterial population density.
For this reason, Rok Krašovec now disagrees with the interpretation of Figure 5 in Jerman et al. (2005) and he would like to withdraw himself from the list of authors. Other authors do not oppose his intention, yet they still believe that the imprint could have an impact on the mutation rate.
Given that the published paper also includes experiments on plants and since the remaining four authors believe that the results on bacteria still show a significant difference from the control, the authors jointly agree that Rok Krašovec is removed from the list of authors and that the paper is not retracted.