About the Authors

Manjit Singh

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, Canada

Surinder Singh

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, Canada

Harpinder Randhawa

Affiliation Lethbridge Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Jaswinder Singh

Jaswinder.Singh@mcgill.ca

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Quebec, Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS MS. Performed the experiments: MS SS. Analyzed the data: MS SS JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS HR. Wrote the paper: MS SS JS HR.