About the Authors

Lisa Gorski

lisa.gorski@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Jessica M. Duhé

Current address: DART Drug and Alcohol Research Team, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, California, United States of America

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Denise Flaherty

Current address: Solazyme, Inc., South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LG. Performed the experiments: LG JMD DF. Analyzed the data: LG DF. Wrote the paper: LG.