About the Authors

Mark Richards

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Richards, Chee Wee Phoon

mark_richards@nyp.gov.sg (MR); dbscwk@nus.edu.sg (WKC)

Affiliation School of Chemical & Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

Chee Wee Phoon

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Richards, Chee Wee Phoon

Affiliation School of Chemical & Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

Gwendoline Tze Wei Goh

Affiliation Singapore Eye Research Institute, 11 Third Hospital Avenue, Singapore

Eng Khuan Seng

Affiliation School of Chemical & Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

Xu Ming Guo

Affiliation School of Chemical & Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

Cherine Mei Fong Tan

Affiliation School of Chemical & Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore

Woon-Khiong Chan

mark_richards@nyp.gov.sg (MR); dbscwk@nus.edu.sg (WKC)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Joel Mun Kin Lee

Affiliations School of Chemical & Life Sciences, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, Food & Human Nutrition Programme (Singapore), School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Agriculture Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR CWP JMKL. Performed the experiments: MR GTWG CWP CMFT EKS XMG. Analyzed the data: MR CWP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MR GTWG CWP CMFT EKS XMG. Wrote the paper: MR CWP WKC JMKL.