About the Authors

Marianna Bessmeltseva

Contributed equally to this work with: Marianna Bessmeltseva, Ene Viiard

Affiliations Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies, Tallinn, Estonia, Department of Food Processing, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Ene Viiard

Contributed equally to this work with: Marianna Bessmeltseva, Ene Viiard

ene@tftak.eu

Affiliations Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies, Tallinn, Estonia, Department of Food Processing, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Jaak Simm

Affiliation Centre for Biology of Integrated Systems, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Toomas Paalme

Affiliations Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies, Tallinn, Estonia, Department of Food Processing, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Inga Sarand

Affiliations Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies, Tallinn, Estonia, Department of Food Processing, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, Department of Gene Technology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts. The authors M. Bessmeltseva, E. Viiard, T. Paalme and I. Sarand work part-time at Competence Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EV MB IS TP. Performed the experiments: EV MB. Analyzed the data: EV MB IS JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EV MB JS TP IS. Wrote the paper: EV MB IS TP JS.