About the Authors

Hirofumi Kuroda

Contributed equally to this work with: Hirofumi Kuroda, Yuki Yanagawa

Affiliation Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuki Yanagawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Hirofumi Kuroda, Yuki Yanagawa

Affiliation Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Naoki Takahashi

Current address: Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan

Affiliation Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Yoko Horii

Affiliations Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Synthetic Genomics Research Team, Biomass Engineering Program, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Minami Matsui

minami@riken.jp

Affiliations Plant Functional Genomics Research Group, Plant Science Center, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Synthetic Genomics Research Team, Biomass Engineering Program, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK YY NT MM. Performed the experiments: HK NT YH YY. Analyzed the data: YY YH NT HK MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY MM. Wrote the paper: YY MM. Software analysis: YY; Cloning Genes: YH HK.