*Satoshi Kidokoro^1,2, Izumi Konoura², Kentaro Hayashi², Fumiyuki Soma², Takamasa Suzuki³, Takuya Miyakawa^2,4, Masaru Tanokura², Kazuo Shinozaki⁵, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki^2,6 (1. Sch. of Life Sci. and Tech., Tokyo Tech, Japan, 2. Grad. Sch. Agr. Life Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Japan, 3. Biosci. Biotech., Chubu Univ., Japan, 4. Grad. Sch. of Biostudies, Kyoto Univ., Japan, 5. Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Japan, 6. Res. Inst. Agr. Life Sci., Tokyo Univ. Agr., Japan)

*Junghyun Kim¹, Sibum Sung¹ (1. The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

*Sourav Mukherjee¹, Avilash Singh Yadav¹, Nikita Bungay¹, Amy Smith¹, Craig I Dent¹, Partha P Das², Yalong Guo³, Sridevi Sureshkumar¹, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian¹ (1. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3800, AUSTRALIA, 2. Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, VIC 3800, AUSTRALIA, 3. State Key Laboratory of Systemic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA)

*Rio Shimizu¹, Mai Yunose¹, Kohei Oyoshi¹, Nobuhiro Suzuki¹ (1. Sophia University, Japan)

*Nobutoshi Yamaguchi¹ (1. Nara Institute of Science and Technology )

*Yee-yung Charng^1,2,3,4, Suma Mitra^1,2,5, Shih-Jiun Yu^1,4 (1. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2. Molecular and Biological Agricultural Sciences Program, TIGP, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 3. Biotechnology Center, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan, 4. Department of Biochemical Sciences and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 5. Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan)

*JENG-SHANE LIN¹, Wei-An Tsai², Po-Han Sung¹, Yun-Wei Kuo^4,1, Ming-Cheng Chen¹, Shih-Tong Jeng³ (1. National Chung Hsing University, 2. The University of Queensland, 3. National Taiwan University, 4. Sanming Academy of Agricultural Sciences)

*Apoorva Gupta¹, Sombir Rao¹, Saloni Mathur¹ (1. National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India)

*Jeongeui Hong¹, Hojin Ryu¹ (1. Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea)

*Gouri Satheesh¹, Chandan Sahi¹ (1. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India)

*Shao-Li Yang^1,2, Cassio Flavio Fonseca De Lima^1,2, Tingting Zhu^1,2, Brigitte Van de Cotte^1,2, Lam Dai Vu^1,2, Ive De Smet^1,2 (1. Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2. VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium)

*Daisuke Todaka¹, Quynh Thi Nhu Do^1,4, Maho Tanaka^1,2, Akihiro Ezoe¹, Satoshi Takahashi^1,2, Junko Ishida^1,2, Miyako Kusano^5,6,7, Makoto Kobayashi⁵, Kazuki Saito⁵, Atsushi J. Nagano^8,9, Motoaki Seki^1,2,3 (1. Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN CSRS, Japan, 2. Plant Epigenome Regulation Laboratory, RIKEN CPR, Japan, 3. Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Japan, 4. Agricultural Genetics Institute, Vietnam, 5. Metabolomics Research Group, RIKEN CSRS, Japan, 6. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 7. Tsukuba Plant Innovation Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 8. Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University, Japan, 9. Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan)

*Matt Jones¹, Allan B James¹, Chantal Sharples^1,4, Janet Laird¹, Emily May Armstrong¹, Wenbin Guo², Nikoleta Tzioutziou^2,3, Runxuan Zhang², John WS Brown^2,3, Hugh G Nimmo¹ (1. University of Glasgow, 2. James Hutton Institute, 3. University of Dundee, 4. Bielefeld University)

*Sumaiya Jannat Tapati¹, Nagib Ahsan², Abidur Rahman^3,4,5 (1. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan, 2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, 3. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan, 4. Department of Plant Biosciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan, 5. Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada)

*Atsuko Miyawaki Kuwakado^1,2, Masaaki Shimizu¹, Keiko Kitamura³, Qingmin Han³, Akiko Satake¹ (1. Kyushu University, Japan, 2. Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan, 3. Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), Japan)

Young-Joon Park^1,2, Hye-Young Choi¹, *Chung-Mo Park¹ (1. Seoul National University, Korea, 2. Kyung Hee University, Korea)

*Alvaro Montiel Jorda¹, James Clark¹, Keara Franklin¹ (1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom)

*Yongjian Qiu¹, Abhishesh Bajracharya¹, Eden E Bayer¹, Alyssa L Stoner¹ (1. The University of Mississippi, USA)

Seung Hee Eom¹, *Tae Kyung Hyun¹ (1. Department of Industrial Plant Science and Technology, Chungbuk National University)

*xuejing wang¹, Nobutoshi Yamaguchi¹, Toshiro Ito¹ (1. Nara institute of science and technology, Japan)

*Daniel Slane^1,2, Kenneth W Berendzen³, Yoshihiro Yoshitake⁴, Christopher Grefen⁵, Takayuki Kohchi⁴, Takuya Sakamoto^2,6, Sachihiro Matsunaga¹ (1. Department of Integrated Biosciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8562, Japan, 2. Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan, 3. Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 32, Tübingen, 72076, Germany, 4. Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan, 5. Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Molecular and Cellular Botany, University of Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany, 6. Department of Science, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1, Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 221-8586, Japan)

*ZHEN YUAN KOK¹, Bo-Shun Tseng¹, Hao-Chen Huang¹, Jeng-Shane Lin¹ (1. National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)

*Nicolas Figueroa Fuentealba¹, Laura Arribas-Hernandez², Peter Brodersen², Monika Chodasiewicz¹ (1. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2. University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Touko Nakazawa¹, So Sugimoto¹, Ryosuke Takahashi¹, Haruho Funamori¹, Fuminori Takahashi², Norihito Nakamichi^3,4, Toshinori Kinoshita^3,4, Kazuo Shinozaki², Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki^1,5, *Junya Mizoi¹ (1. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 2. Center for Sustainable Resource Science, RIKEN, Japan, 3. ITbM, Nagoya University, Japan, 4. Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan, 5. Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan)

*GUAN-LIN CHUO¹, Chin-Mei Lee¹ (1. National Taiwan Univeristy, Taiwan)

*Suma Mitra^1,2, Nai-yu Liu¹, Shih-Jiun Yu^1,3, Hong-Yi Li^1,3, Yu-Yen Shen¹, Yee-yung Charng^1,2,3 (1. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center (ABRC), Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2. Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, 3. Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

*Minoru Noguchi¹, Hitomi Takahashi¹, Issei Keino¹, Yutaka Kodama¹ (1. Utsunomiya University, Japan)

*David Gonzalez-Campo¹, Peter Geigenberger¹ (1. LMU Munich )

*Hidefumi Hamasaki¹, Setsuko Shimada¹, Yukio Kurihara², Minami Matsui¹ (1. Riken Yokohama Institute, 2. Tokyo University, Japan)