About the Authors

Mahrokh Balouchi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Shu Hui Huang

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Siobhan L. McGrath

Roles Investigation

Affiliation The Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Kerri Kobryn

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kerri.kobryn@usask.ca

Affiliation Dept. of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.