About the Authors

Giuseppe Ianiri

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Ambiente e Alimenti, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy

Ritika Abhyankar

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Pembroke Hill School, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Akio Kihara

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Alexander Idnurm

alexander.idnurm@unimelb.edu.au

Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GI RA AK AI. Performed the experiments: GI RA AK AI. Analyzed the data: GI RA AK AI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GI RA AK AI. Wrote the paper: GI AK AI.