About the Authors

Kiwamu Umezawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

umezawa@nara.kindai.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Kindai University, Nara, Japan

Mai Niikura

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Yuka Kojima

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Barry Goodell

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

Makoto Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.