About the Authors

Eigo Fukai

efukai@kazusa.or.jp

Affiliations National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Yosuke Umehara

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Shusei Sato

Affiliation Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, Japan

Makoto Endo

Current address: Takii Seed, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliation National Institute of Crop Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Hiroshi Kouchi

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Makoto Hayashi

Affiliation National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Jens Stougaard

Affiliation Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

Hirohiko Hirochika

Affiliation 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: EF JS HH. Performed the experiments: EF YU SS ME. Analyzed the data: EF YU SS ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EF YU HK. Wrote the paper: EF HK MH JS HH.