About the Authors

Amitha P. Reddy

Contributed equally to this work with: Amitha P. Reddy, Christopher W. Simmons

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Christopher W. Simmons

Contributed equally to this work with: Amitha P. Reddy, Christopher W. Simmons

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, Food Science, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Patrik D’haeseleer

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Jane Khudyakov

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Helcio Burd

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Masood Hadi

Current address: Synthetic Biology Program, Space BioSciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, United States of America

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Blake A. Simmons

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Materials Science Center, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America

Steven W. Singer

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Michael P. Thelen

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America

Jean S. VanderGheynst

jsvander@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, California, United States of America, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: APR JSV. Performed the experiments: APR. Analyzed the data: APR CWS PD JK JSV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB MH BAS SWS MPT JSV PD. Wrote the paper: CWS JSV APR.