About the Authors

Kacper Piotr Kaminski

Affiliations Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Annabeth Høgh Petersen

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Mads Sønderkær

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Lars Haastrup Pedersen

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Henrik Pedersen

Affiliation AKV-Langholt Amba, Langholt, Denmark

Christian Feder

Affiliation KMC, Brande, Denmark

Kåre L. Nielsen

kln@bio.aau.dk

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Competing Interests

CF is employed by the commercial starch producing company KMC, and HP by the commercial starch producing company AKV. There are no patents, products in development or modified products etc. in relation to this manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KPK KLN. Performed the experiments: KPK AHP CF HP. Analyzed the data: KPK AHP MS LHP KLN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KPK AHP MS LHP HP CF KLN. Wrote the paper: KPK LHP KLN.