In Volume 46 of the Journal of Biosciences, in the article titled 'A cost-effective and efficient approach for generating and assembling reagents for conducting real-time PCR' by Ridim D Mote, V Shinde Laxmikant, Surya Bansi Singh, Mahak Tiwari, Hemant Singh, Juhi Srivastava, Vidisha Tripathi,Vasudevan Seshadri, Amitabha Majumdar and Deepa Subramanyam, published on 27 November 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12038-021- 00231-w), the second author's name was incorrectly set as V Shinde Laxmikant. The correct name should read as Shinde Laxmikant V.