About the Authors

Zhongwei Zou

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Masahiko Ishida

Affiliation NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Feng Li

Current address: Oil Crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Tomohiro Kakizaki

Affiliation NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Sho Suzuki

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Hiroyasu Kitashiba

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Takeshi Nishio

nishio@bios.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN. Performed the experiments: ZZ MI FL TK SS HK. Analyzed the data: ZZ MI FL TK SS HK TN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MI HK TN. Wrote the paper: ZZ TN.