About the Authors

Charles G. Nasmith

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles G. Nasmith, Sean Walkowiak, Li Wang, Rajagopal Subramaniam

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sean Walkowiak

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles G. Nasmith, Sean Walkowiak, Li Wang, Rajagopal Subramaniam

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Li Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles G. Nasmith, Sean Walkowiak, Li Wang, Rajagopal Subramaniam

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Winnie W. Y. Leung

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Yunchen Gong

Affiliation CAGEF, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anne Johnston

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Linda J. Harris

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David S. Guttman

Affiliation CAGEF, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Rajagopal Subramaniam

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles G. Nasmith, Sean Walkowiak, Li Wang, Rajagopal Subramaniam

Subramaniamra@agr.gc.ca

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CGN SW LW RS. Performed the experiments: CGN LW AJ WWYL RS. Analyzed the data: CGN SW RS AJ YG DSG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YG DSG LJH RS. Wrote the paper: RS.