About the Authors

Eddy Risseeuw

erisseeuw@gmail.com (ER); raju.datla@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (RD)

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

Prakash Venglat

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

Daoquan Xiang

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

Kristina Komendant

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

Tim Daskalchuk

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

Vivijan Babic

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

William Crosby

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada

Raju Datla

erisseeuw@gmail.com (ER); raju.datla@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (RD)

Affiliation Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ER PV RD. Performed the experiments: ER PV DX VB. Analyzed the data: ER PV RD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WC KK TD. Wrote the paper: ER PV RD.