About the Authors

Xin Tang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, P.R. China

Haiqin Chen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, P.R. China, Synergistic Innovation Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, P.R. China

Yong Q. Chen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, P.R. China, Synergistic Innovation Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, P.R. China

Wei Chen

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, P.R. China, Synergistic Innovation Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, Wuxi, P.R. China

Victoriano Garre

Affiliation Departamento de Genética y Microbiología (Unidad asociada al IQFR-CSIC), Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Yuanda Song

ysong@jiangnan.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, P.R. China

Colin Ratledge

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS CR. Performed the experiments: XT. Analyzed the data: XT YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC YQC WC VG YS. Wrote the paper: XT HC YS CR.