About the Authors

Atsushi Fukuda

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Fukuda, Feng Cao

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Feng Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Fukuda, Feng Cao

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Shinnosuke Morita

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Kaori Yamada

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Jincho

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Shouji Tane

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Yusuke Sotomaru

Affiliation Natural Science Centre for Basic Research and Development, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Tomohiro Kono

tomohiro@nodai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AF FC TK. Performed the experiments: AF FC SM KY YJ ST YS. Analyzed the data: AF FC SM. Wrote the paper: AF FC TK.