About the Authors

Gregory J. Tanner

Greg.Tanner@csiro.au

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Food Futures Flagship, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Malcolm J. Blundell

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Food Futures Flagship, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Michelle L. Colgrave

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Animal, Food and Health Sciences, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Crispin A. Howitt

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Food Futures Flagship, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Competing Interests

We have the following interests: Tanner and Howitt are inventors on a provisional patent application “Barley with low levels of hordein” U.S. Provisional application No. 505676, filed Aug 13, 2007; International Patent Application No. PCT/AU2008/001172 (WO2009021285-A1). The authors derive no financial benefit from this patent and all rights have been assigned to CSIRO, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne Health and Grains Research and Development Commission (Australia). As far as we are aware as at the time of submission of this paper, there are no further patents, commercial products in development, or marketed products related to the subject matter of this paper to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GT MJB. Performed the experiments: GT MJB. Analyzed the data: GT MJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GT. Wrote the paper: GT MLC CAH.