About the Authors

Christopher J. Walkey

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Walkey, Zongli Luo

Affiliation Wine Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zongli Luo

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher J. Walkey, Zongli Luo

Affiliation Wine Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lufiani L. Madilao

Affiliation Wine Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hennie J. J. van Vuuren

hjjvv@mail.ubc.ca

Affiliation Wine Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. A patent application on low acetic acid (VA) producing wine yeasts has been submitted to the US Patent and Trade Mark Office (13-011 USP).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CW ZL LM HJJvV. Performed the experiments: CW ZL LM. Analyzed the data: CW ZL LM HJJvV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HJJvV. Wrote the paper: CW ZL HJJvV.