About the Authors

Atsushi Kasai

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kasai, Songling Bai

kasaia@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

Songling Bai

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kasai, Songling Bai

Affiliation College of Agriculture & Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China

Hatsune Hojo

Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

Takeo Harada

Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK SB. Performed the experiments: AK HH. Analyzed the data: AK HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AK SB HH. Wrote the paper: AK TH.