About the Authors

Takeki Hamasaki

Affiliation Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Noboru Nakamichi

Affiliation Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Kiichiro Teruya

Affiliation Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Sanetaka Shirahata

sirahata@grt.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH NN KT SS. Performed the experiments: TH NN SS. Analyzed the data: TH NN KT SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH NN SS. Wrote the paper: TH NN SS.