About the Authors

Megumi Shigematsu

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuhiro Ogawa

amasaki@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HM); atetsu@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TO)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Wataru Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Kazutoshi Takahashi

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroko K. Kitamoto

Affiliation National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Ibaraki, Japan

Makoto Hidaka

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Haruhiko Masaki

amasaki@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (HM); atetsu@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TO)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MS TO HM. Performed the experiments: MS WT KT. Analyzed the data: MS TO HKK MH HM. Wrote the manuscript: MS TO HM.