About the Authors

Jorge Dinamarca

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Departamento de Producción Agropecuaria, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

Oksana Shlyk-Kerner

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

David Kaftan

avigdor.scherz@weizmann.ac.il (AS); kaftan@ufb.jcu.cz (DK)

Affiliation Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic

Eran Goldberg

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Alexander Dulebo

Affiliation Institute of Physical Biology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic

Manuel Gidekel

Affiliations Departamento de Producción Agropecuaria, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile, VentureLab - Knowledge Center for Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile

Ana Gutierrez

Affiliation VentureLab - Knowledge Center for Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago, Chile

Avigdor Scherz

avigdor.scherz@weizmann.ac.il (AS); kaftan@ufb.jcu.cz (DK)

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

A.S. is the incumbent of the Robert and Yaddele Sklare Professorial Chair in Biochemistry. J.D. was supported by a fellowship from the Programa Bicentenario-Banco Mundial, Conicyt, Chile. This program has no commercial interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD OS-K DK AS. Performed the experiments: JD OS-K DK EG AD AS. Analyzed the data: JD OS-K DK EG AD MG AG AS. Wrote the paper: JD OS-K DK AS.