About the Authors

Yoshiaki Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

yoshis@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Agrobiology and Bioresources, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan

Honoka Shioya

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agrobiology and Bioresources, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan

Yuma Uda

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Farm, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan

Hiroshi Asano

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Farm, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan

Yoshikazu Nagao

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University Farm, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan

Hitoshi Kuno

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation KJ Bio Co., Ltd., Kumamoto, Japan

Fumiaki Yoshizawa

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agrobiology and Bioresources, School of Agriculture, Utsunomiya University, Tochigi, Japan

Competing Interests

Hitoshi Kuno worked for a company that produced the Coccomyxa sp. KJ, and partly funded the project. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.