About the Authors

Zhanmin Fan

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Ling Yuan

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences and Kentucky Tobacco Research and Development Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Ranjini Chatterjee

rjic@novozymes.com

Affiliation Farasis Energy, Inc., Hayward, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZF LY RC. Performed the experiments: ZF RC. Analyzed the data: ZF LY RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZF RC. Wrote the paper: RC. Revised manuscript drafts: ZF. Revised manuscript: LY.