About the Authors

Minoru Kubo

minoru.kubo@biologie.uni-freiburg.de (MK); mhasebe@nibb.ac.jp (MH)

Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan, Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, FRIAS – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany

Akihiro Imai

Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Tomoaki Nishiyama

Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan, Advanced Science Research Center, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

Masaki Ishikawa

Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

Yoshikatsu Sato

Current address: Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan ERATO, Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Affiliation ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan

Tetsuya Kurata

Current address: Plant Global Education Project, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan

Affiliation ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan

Yuji Hiwatashi

Current address: National Plant Phenomics Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom

Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

Ralf Reski

Affiliations Plant Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, FRIAS – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany, BIOSS – Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Freiburg, Germany

Mitsuyasu Hasebe

minoru.kubo@biologie.uni-freiburg.de (MK); mhasebe@nibb.ac.jp (MH)

Affiliations National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Okazaki, Japan, School of Life Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK TN MH. Performed the experiments: MK AI MI YS TK YH. Analyzed the data: MK TN TK MH. Wrote the manuscript: MK TN RR MH.