Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 19768; published online: 27 January 2016; updated: 13 April 2016 This Article contains errors. In the Methods section under subheading ‘Analysis of the effects of the herbicides and the herbicide-loaded nanoparticles on soil microbiota’, “The chemical composition of the soil was characterized using X-ray fluorescence, considering the elements aluminum, calcium, chlorine, iron, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, titanium, chromium, manganese, zinc, strontium, yttrium, zirconium, arsenic, and bromine (Table 2).