About the Authors

Surya Kant

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, the Grains Innovation Park, Horsham, Victoria, Australia

David Burch

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, the Grains Innovation Park, Horsham, Victoria, Australia

Pieter Badenhorst

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia

Rajasekaran Palanisamy

Affiliation Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, Hamilton, Victoria, Australia

John Mason

Affiliations Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

German Spangenberg

german.spangenberg@depi.vic.gov.au

Affiliations Department of Environment and Primary Industries, Biosciences Research Division, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBioscience, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS JM SK. Performed the experiments: SK DB PB RP. Analyzed the data: SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS JM. Wrote the paper: SK.