About the Authors

Jincai Ma

Affiliations United States Salinity Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Riverside, California, United States of America, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

A. Mark Ibekwe

Mark.Ibekwe@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation United States Salinity Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service, Riverside, California, United States of America

Menu Leddy

Affiliation Orange County Water District, Fountain Valley, California, United States of America

Ching-Hong Yang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

David E. Crowley

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM AMI. Performed the experiments: JM ML. Analyzed the data: JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMI JM CHY. Wrote the paper: JM AMI ML DEC.