About the Authors

Xianzhi Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianzhi Xie, Takatoshi Kagawa

Affiliations Photobiology and Photosynthesis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Shandong Rice Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong, China

Takatoshi Kagawa

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianzhi Xie, Takatoshi Kagawa

Current address: Functional Plant Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Affiliation Photobiology and Photosynthesis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Makoto Takano

mtakano@affrc.go.jp

Current address: GMO Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Affiliation Photobiology and Photosynthesis Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XX MT. Performed the experiments: XX TK. Analyzed the data: XX MT TK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XX TK. Wrote the paper: XX MT.