About the Authors

Tahira Fatima

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Crystal L. Snyder

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

William R. Schroeder

Affiliation Agroforestry Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Indian Head, Saskatchewan, Canada

Dustin Cram

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Raju Datla

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

David Wishart

Affiliation Departments of Computing Science and Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Randall J. Weselake

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Priti Krishna

pkrishna@uwo.ca

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PK RJW TF CS. Performed the experiments: TF CS. Analyzed the data: TF CS PK RJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WRS. Wrote the paper: PK TF CS. Oversaw standardization of fatty acid analysis: DW. Oversaw fatty acid analysis: RJW. Carried out in silico analysis of ESTs related to fatty acid biosynthesis in seeds of sea buckthorn, flax and Arabidopsis: DC RD.