About the Authors

Manus Carey

Affiliation Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Xiao Jiujin

Affiliations Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China

Júlia Gomes Farias

Affiliations Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Departamento de Biologia, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

Andrew A. Meharg

aa.meharg@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AAM. Performed the experiments: MC XJ JGF. Analyzed the data: MC AAM. Wrote the paper: MC AAM.