About the Authors

Akira Yoshimi

Affiliation New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Motoaki Sano

Affiliation Genome Biotechnology Laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Ishikawa, Japan

Azusa Inaba

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Yuko Kokubun

Affiliation Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Tomonori Fujioka

Affiliation Kumiai Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Osamu Mizutani

Affiliation National Research Institute of Brewing, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Daisuke Hagiwara

Affiliation Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Takashi Fujikawa

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Marie Nishimura

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

Shigekazu Yano

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

Shin Kasahara

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Miyagi University, Sendai, Japan

Kiminori Shimizu

Affiliation Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Masashi Yamaguchi

Affiliation Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Kazuyoshi Kawakami

Affiliation National Department of Medical Microbiology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Keietsu Abe

kabe@niche.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliations New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Department of Microbial Biotechnology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Competing Interests

T. Fujioka is employed by the Kumiai Chemical Co., Ltd. However, despite this affiliation, the authors declare that none of them have any competing interests relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products. In addition, this affiliation does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Advisor for analysis of the data: T. Fujioka OM DH T. Fujikawa MN KK. Conceived and designed the experiments: AY KA. Performed the experiments: AY MS AI YK SK KS MY. Analyzed the data: AY AI SK KA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SY. Wrote the paper: AY KA.