About the Authors

Junaid Hassan

Contributed equally to this work with: Junaid Hassan, Lars R. Bakken

junaid.hassan@nmbu.no

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Zhi Qu

Current address: College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi, China

‡ ZQ and LLB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Linda L. Bergaust

‡ ZQ and LLB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Lars R. Bakken

Contributed equally to this work with: Junaid Hassan, Lars R. Bakken

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LLB LRB. Performed the experiments: ZQ LLB. Analyzed the data: JH LRB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: JH LRB.