About the Authors

Heidy M. W. den Besten

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Aarathi Arvind

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Heidi M. S. Gaballo

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Roy Moezelaar

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Food and Biobased Research, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Marcel H. Zwietering

Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Tjakko Abee

tjakko.abee@wur.nl

Affiliations Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HDB RM MZ TA. Performed the experiments: HDB AA HG. Analyzed the data: HDB RM MZ TA. Wrote the paper: HDB RM MZ TA.