About the Authors

Liron Shalom

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Sivan Samuels

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Naftali Zur

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Lyudmila Shlizerman

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Hanita Zemach

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Mira Weissberg

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Ron Ophir

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Eduardo Blumwald

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Avi Sadka

vhasadka@volcani.agri.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: L. Shalom AS. Performed the experiments: L. Shalom SS NZ L. Shlizerman HZ. Analyzed the data: L. Shalom RO AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EB. Wrote the paper: L. Shalom AS.