About the Authors

Ru Li

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Ehsan Khafipour

Ehsan.Khafipour@ad.umanitoba.ca (EK); Dilantha.Fernando@ad.umanitoba.ca (WGDF)

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Denis O. Krause

Affiliations Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Martin H. Entz

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Teresa R. de Kievit

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

W. G. Dilantha Fernando

Ehsan.Khafipour@ad.umanitoba.ca (EK); Dilantha.Fernando@ad.umanitoba.ca (WGDF)

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL WGDF MHE TRdK. Performed the experiments: RL. Analyzed the data: RL EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WGDF EK DOK. Wrote the paper: RL EK WGDF.