About the Authors

Zhiqiu Hu

Affiliation Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Rong-Cai Yang

rong-cai.yang@ales.ualberta.ca

Affiliations Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: R-CY ZH. Performed the experiments: ZH R-CY. Analyzed the data: ZH R-CY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZH R-CY. Wrote the paper: R-CY.