About the Authors

Yoshitake Desaki

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Ippei Otomo

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Daijiro Kobayashi

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Yusuke Jikumaru

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuji Kamiya

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Balakrishnan Venkatesh

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan

Shinji Tsuyumu

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan

Hanae Kaku

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Naoto Shibuya

shibuya@isc.meiji.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YD IO DK YJ YK HK NS. Performed the experiments: YD IO DK YJ BV. Analyzed the data: YD IO DK YJ YK HK NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJ YK BV ST. Wrote the paper: YD NS.