About the Authors
- Ram Kumar Shrestha
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and the Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Tally Rosenberg
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and the Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Daria Makarovsky
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and the Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Noam Eckshtain-Levi
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Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and the Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- Einat Zelinger
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Affiliation Interdepartmental Equipment Facility, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
- June Kopelowitz
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Affiliation Savyon Diagnostics Ltd., Ashdod, Israel
- Johannes Sikorski
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Affiliation Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany
- Saul Burdman
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* E-mail: saul.burdman@mail.huji.ac.il
Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and the Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Competing Interests
JK is affiliated to a commercial company, Savyon Ltd. This fact does not have any implication related to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products. In addition, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: RKS JK JS SB. Performed the experiments: RKS TR DM NEL EZ JS SB. Analyzed the data: RKS JS SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS SB. Wrote the manuscript: RKS JS SB.