About the Authors

Felicia Goldsmith

Affiliation Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America

Michael J. Keenan

Affiliation Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America

Anne M. Raggio

Affiliation Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America

Xin Ye

Affiliation Antioxidant and Gene Regulation Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, United States of America

Zheng Hao

Affiliation Antioxidant and Gene Regulation Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, United States of America

Holiday Durham

Affiliation Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America

James Geaghan

Affiliation Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, United States of America

Weiping Jia

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai 200233, China

Roy J. Martin

Affiliations Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis, California 95616, United States of America, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, United States of America

Jianping Ye

yej@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Antioxidant and Gene Regulation Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, United States of America

Competing Interests

The study is supported by several funders including US federal, foreign and private (Merck) agencies. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This funding status does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MJK WJ RJM JY. Performed the experiments: FG AMR XY ZH HD. Analyzed the data: FG MJK JG WJ JY. Wrote the paper: FG MJK JY.