About the Authors

Igor V. Senderskiy

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiological Control, All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia

Sergey A. Timofeev

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiological Control, All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia

Elena V. Seliverstova

Affiliation Laboratory of Renal Physiology, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, St. Petersburg, Russia

Olga A. Pavlova

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiological Control, All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia

Viacheslav V. Dolgikh

dol1slav@yahoo.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiological Control, All-Russian Institute for Plant Protection, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VVD IVS SAT. Performed the experiments: IVS SAT EVS OAP VVD. Analyzed the data: IVS VVD EVS SAT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IVS SAT EVS OAP. Wrote the paper: VVD IVS SAT.