About the Authors

Hui Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Chen, Andrej Adam Arsovski

Affiliations Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford ST. London, Ontario, N5T 4T3, Canada, Dept of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond ST N. London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada

Andrej Adam Arsovski

Contributed equally to this work with: Hui Chen, Andrej Adam Arsovski

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford ST. London, Ontario, N5T 4T3, Canada

Kangfu Yu

Affiliation Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2585 County Rd. 20, Harrow, Ontario, N0R 1G0, Canada

Aiming Wang

Aiming.Wang@AGR.GC.CA

Affiliations Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1391 Sandford ST. London, Ontario, N5T 4T3, Canada, Dept of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond ST N. London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HC AW. Performed the experiments: HC AAA. Analyzed the data: HC AAA KY AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KY AW. Wrote the paper: HC AAA AW.