About the Authors

Mateusz Lezyk

Affiliation Center for BioProcess Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Carsten Jers

cjer@dtu.dk

Affiliation Center for BioProcess Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Louise Kjaerulff

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Charlotte H. Gotfredsen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Maria D. Mikkelsen

Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jørn D. Mikkelsen

Affiliation Center for BioProcess Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Competing Interests

The company Hempel (www.hempel.com) funded a Ph.D. scholarship for ML. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML CJ JDM. Performed the experiments: ML CJ LK MDM. Analyzed the data: ML CJ LK CHG MDM JDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CHG MDM JDM. Wrote the paper: ML CJ.