About the Authors

Sompong Chankaew

Contributed equally to this work with: Sompong Chankaew, Takehisa Isemura, Sachiko Isobe

Affiliation Program in Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture at Kamphaeng Saen, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Takehisa Isemura

Contributed equally to this work with: Sompong Chankaew, Takehisa Isemura, Sachiko Isobe

Affiliation Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Sachiko Isobe

Contributed equally to this work with: Sompong Chankaew, Takehisa Isemura, Sachiko Isobe

Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Akito Kaga

Affiliation Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Norihiko Tomooka

tomooka@affrc.go.jp (NT); agrpss@yahoo.com (PS)

Affiliation Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Prakit Somta

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture at Kamphaeng Saen, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Hideki Hirakawa

Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Kenta Shirasawa

Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Duncan A. Vaughan

Affiliation Genetic Resources Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Peerasak Srinives

tomooka@affrc.go.jp (NT); agrpss@yahoo.com (PS)

Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture at Kamphaeng Saen, Kasetsart University, Kamphaeng Saen, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC TI AK DAV NT P. Somta P. Srinives. Performed the experiments: SC TI AK DAV NT P. Somta P. Srinives. Analyzed the data: SC TI NT AK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SI HH KS NT TI. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SC TI AK NT P. Somta P. Srinives.