About the Authors

Katja Schneider

Current address: Department Plant Biotechnology, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (IME), Aachen, Germany

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Christian Breuer

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Ayako Kawamura

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yusuke Jikumaru

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Atsushi Hanada

Current address: Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Shozo Fujioka

Affiliation RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan

Takanari Ichikawa

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Youichi Kondou

Current address: Faculty of Engineering, Kanto Gakuin University, Kanazawa, Kanagawa, Japan

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Minami Matsui

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuji Kamiya

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Shinjiro Yamaguchi

Current address: Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Keiko Sugimoto

sugimoto@psc.riken.jp

Affiliation RIKEN Plant Science Center, Tsurumi, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors declare that one of their co-authors Minami Matsui is an editorial board member of PLOS ONE. However, this does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Schneider CB K. Sugimoto. Performed the experiments: K. Schneider CB AK YJ AH SF. Analyzed the data: K. Schneider CB AK YJ AH SF Y. Kamiya SY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TI Y. Kondou MM. Wrote the paper: K. Schneider CB K. Sugimoto.