About the Authors
- Shakeeba Waseh
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Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Pejman Hanifi-Moghaddam
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Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Russell Coleman
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Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Michael Masotti
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Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Shannon Ryan
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Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Mary Foss
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Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Roger MacKenzie
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Affiliations Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Environmental Biology, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
- Matthew Henry
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Affiliation Department of Discovery Research, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Christine M. Szymanski
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* E-mail: jamshid.tanha@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (JT); cszymans@ualberta.ca (CMS)
Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science, Edmonton, Canada
Affiliation Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
- Jamshid Tanha
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* E-mail: jamshid.tanha@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (JT); cszymans@ualberta.ca (CMS)
Affiliations Institute for Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Environmental Biology, Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Competing Interests
Matthew Henry contributed to the project's experimental design and is one of the inventors on the above mentioned patent. There is no competing or conflict of interest regarding the content of this manuscript. The authors confirm their agreement to PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials by making freely available any materials and information described in this publication that are reasonably requested by others for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RC RM MH CMS JT. Performed the experiments: SW PHM MM SR MF. Analyzed the data: SW PHM JT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RC MM SR MF. Wrote the paper: SW PHM JT. Supervision: JT. Responsible for animal study: RC.