About the Authors

Moshe Lapidot

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Uri Karniel

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Dana Gelbart

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Doron Fogel

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Dalia Evenor

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Plants and Agricultural Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Yaarit Kutsher

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Plants and Agricultural Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Zion Makhbash

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Sahadia Nahon

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Haviva Shlomo

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Lea Chen

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Moshe Reuveni

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Plants and Agricultural Biotechnology, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Ilan Levin

vclevini@volcani.agri.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Vegetable and Field Crop Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IL ML MR. Performed the experiments: DG UK DF DE YK ZM SN HS LC. Analyzed the data: IL ML MR DG. Wrote the paper: IL ML MR.