About the Authors

Lu Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Lu, Kang-Mo Ku

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Kang-Mo Ku

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Lu, Kang-Mo Ku

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Sindy Paola Palma-Salgado

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Andrew Page Storm

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Hao Feng

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

John A. Juvik

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Thanh H. Nguyen

thn@illinois.edu

Affiliation Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: THN JAJ HF. Performed the experiments: LL K-MK SP-S AS. Analyzed the data: LL K-MK SP-S AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL K-MK SP-S AS. Wrote the paper: LL K-MK SP-S AS THN JAJ HF.