About the Authors

Katsunori Hatakeyama

Affiliation Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Keita Suwabe

Affiliation Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Rubens Norio Tomita

Affiliation Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Takeyuki Kato

Affiliations Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Tsukasa Nunome

Affiliation Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Hiroyuki Fukuoka

Affiliation Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Satoru Matsumoto

ssmats@affrc.go.jp

Affiliation Vegetable Breeding and Genome Research Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KH SM. Performed the experiments: KH KS RNT TN HF SM TK. Wrote the paper: KH SM.