About the Authors

Vijai Bhadauria

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Sabine Banniza

sabine.banniza@usask.ca (SB); yangdou.wei@usask.ca (YW)

Affiliation Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Albert Vandenberg

Affiliation Crop Development Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Gopalan Selvaraj

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

Yangdou Wei

sabine.banniza@usask.ca (SB); yangdou.wei@usask.ca (YW)

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VB SB AV YW. Performed the experiments: VB. Analyzed the data: VB SB YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS. Wrote the paper: VB SB YW.