Abstract: The Outlook article 'The search for the rice of the future' (Nature 514, S60-S61; 2014) wrongly stated that a flood-resistant gene was bred into rice by Pamela Ronald.In fact, the breeding was done by David Mackill, Abdelbagi Ismail and their team at IRRI. Ebola: models do more than forecastYour assertion that models of the Ebola epidemic have failed to project its course misrepresents their aims (see Nature 515, 18; 2014).They helped to inspire and inform the strong international response that may at last be slowing the epidemic (see M.