About the Authors

Yuuri Hirooka

yuurihirooka@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Forest Microbiology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Mitsuteru Akiba

Affiliation Department of Forest Microbiology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yu Ichihara

Affiliation Tohoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Morioka, Iwate, Japan

Hayato Masuya

Affiliation Department of Forest Microbiology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshihiro Takahata

Affiliation Kyushu Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kurokami, Kumamoto, Japan

Tomohisa Suda

Affiliation Fukushima Prefectural Forestry Research Center, Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

Yutaka Yada

Affiliation Ishikawa Forest Experiment Station, Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan

Shigehiro Yamamoto

Affiliation Shizuoka Prefectural Research Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, Forestry and Forest Products Research Center, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Takanori Kubono

Affiliation Department of Forest Microbiology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH MA YI HM TK. Performed the experiments: YH MA YI HM YT TS YY SY TK. Analyzed the data: YH TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH MA YI HM YT TS YY SY TK. Wrote the paper: YH.