The major concept of our study had been to elucidate regulatory regions of FLM transcription and this also included analysis of FLMd. Rejecting the importance of FLMd was not a prerequisite but an important result of the study. It is true that the finding that FLMd may not have a function in flowering time control had already been a conclusion from our earlier work (Lutz et al., 2015). On the other side, the two papers that led to the original model, which now has to be considered invalid, were published very prominently (Nature, Science), reached a very large readership and are still frequently discussed and cited, e.g. in a very recent review (Deng and Cao, 2016, Current Opinion in Plant Biology). We therefore also felt that it may be used as an argument against our current data analysis and manuscript if we ignored FLMd.