About the Authors

Yaqi Bi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Arthur K. Tugume

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Jari P. T. Valkonen

jari.valkonen@helsinki.fi

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YB AKT JPTV. Performed the experiments: YB AKT. Analyzed the data: YB JPTV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YB AKT. Wrote the paper: JPTV YB AKT.