About the Authors

Sotaro Chiba

Contributed equally to this work with: Sotaro Chiba, Hideki Kondo

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan

Hideki Kondo

Contributed equally to this work with: Sotaro Chiba, Hideki Kondo

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan

Akio Tani

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan

Daisuke Saisho

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan

Wataru Sakamoto

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan

Satoko Kanematsu

Affiliation National Institute of Fruit Tree Science, National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Morioka, Japan

Nobuhiro Suzuki

nsuzuki@rib.okayama-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS SK HK. Performed the experiments: SC HK AT SK WS. Analyzed the data: SC HK AT DS WS SK NS. Wrote the paper: WS NS.