About the Authors

Mari Narusaka

Affiliation Research Institute for Biological Sciences Okayama, Okayama, Japan

Yasuyuki Kubo

Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan

Katsunori Hatakeyama

Affiliation Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Mie, Japan

Jun Imamura

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Ezura

Affiliation Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshihiko Nanasato

Affiliation Genetically Modified Organism Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

Yutaka Tabei

Affiliation Genetically Modified Organism Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

Yoshitaka Takano

Affiliation Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Ken Shirasu

ken.shirasu@psc.riken.jp (KS); yo_narusaka@bio-ribs.com (YN)

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Yokohama, Japan

Yoshihiro Narusaka

ken.shirasu@psc.riken.jp (KS); yo_narusaka@bio-ribs.com (YN)

Affiliation Research Institute for Biological Sciences Okayama, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MN Y. Narusaka. Performed the experiments: MN Y. Narusaka. Analyzed the data: MN Y. Takano KS Y. Narusaka. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN YK KH JI HE Y. Nanasato Y. Tabei. Wrote the paper: MN KS Y. Narusaka.