About the Authors

Jilagamazhi Fu

Affiliation Department of Biosystem Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Parveen Sharma

Affiliation Department of Biosystem Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Vic Spicer

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine & Manitoba Centre for Proteomics and Systems Biology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Oleg V. Krokhin

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine & Manitoba Centre for Proteomics and Systems Biology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Xiangli Zhang

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Brian Fristensky

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Nazim Cicek

Affiliation Department of Biosystem Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Richard Sparling

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

David. B. Levin

david.levin@umanitoba.ca

Affiliation Department of Biosystem Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RS DBL. Performed the experiments: JF PS. Analyzed the data: JF PS VS XZ BF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OVK NC RS DBL. Wrote the paper: JF PS NC RS DBL.