About the Authors

Ai Kawahara

Current address: Health & Crop Sciences Research Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical, Co. Ltd., Takarazuka, Japan

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Gi-Hong An

Current address: Bioenergy Crop Research Center, Muan, Republic of Korea

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Sachie Miyakawa

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Jun Sonoda

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Tatsuhiro Ezawa

tatsu@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AK TE. Data curation: AK GHA SM JS. Formal analysis: AK. Funding acquisition: TE. Investigation: AK GHA SM JS. Methodology: AK TE. Supervision: TE. Validation: AK. Writing – original draft: AK TE. Writing – review & editing: TE.