About the Authors
- Julio V. Suarez
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Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Stephen Banks
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Current address: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Paul G. Thomas
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Current address: Cambridge Enterprise Limited, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliation Syngenta, Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom
- Anil Day
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* E-mail: anil.day@manchester.ac.uk
Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
PGT was employed by Zeneca Agrochemicals (now Syngenta), whose company provided funding as a BBSRC CASE studentship. The work on the mutant C. reinhardtii PDS gene disclosed in this publication is not the subject of any patent applications by the authors. The mutant C. reinhardtii PDS gene disclosed in this publication is not the subject of commercial products in development by the authors or marketed products by the authors. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PGT SB JVS AD. Performed the experiments: SB JVS. Analyzed the data: SB PGT AD JVS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JVS SB PGT AD. Wrote the paper: JVS AD.