About the Authors

Craig T. Parker

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

craig.parker@usda.gov (CTP); kcooper@arizona.edu (KKC)

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Sophia Kathariou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation North Carolina State University, Department of Food, Nutrition and Bioprocessing Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

William G. Miller

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Steven Huynh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Ben Pascoe

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom

Kerry K. Cooper

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

craig.parker@usda.gov (CTP); kcooper@arizona.edu (KKC)

Affiliation School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.