About the Authors

Neil D. Warnock

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil D. Warnock, Leonie Wilson

Affiliation Microbes & Pathogen Biology, The Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Leonie Wilson

Contributed equally to this work with: Neil D. Warnock, Leonie Wilson

Affiliation Microbes & Pathogen Biology, The Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Cheryl Patten

Affiliation Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada

Colin C. Fleming

Affiliation Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, United Kingdom

Aaron G. Maule

Affiliation Microbes & Pathogen Biology, The Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Johnathan J. Dalzell

j.dalzell@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Microbes & Pathogen Biology, The Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Queen's University Belfast are in the process of submitting a patent application covering aspects of the data presented within this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JJD AGM CP. Formal analysis: NDW LW. Funding acquisition: JJD. Methodology: JJD NDW LW CP. Resources: CCF. Supervision: JJD. Validation: NDW LW. Visualization: NDW LW JJD. Writing – review & editing: JJD NDW LW AGM CCF CP.