About the Authors

Choon Pin Foong

Contributed equally to this work with: Choon Pin Foong, Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biomacromolecules Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Choon Pin Foong, Mieko Higuchi-Takeuchi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biomacromolecules Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Keiji Numata

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

keiji.numata@riken.jp

Affiliation Biomacromolecules Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.