About the Authors

Dikla Sela

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Kobi Buxdorf

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Jian Xin Shi

Affiliations Department of Plant Sciences and Bioinformatics Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, National Center for Molecular Characterization of Genetically Modified Organisms, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Ester Feldmesser

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences and Bioinformatics Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Lukas Schreiber

Affiliation Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany (IZMB), Department of Ecophysiology, Kirschallee, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Asaph Aharoni

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences and Bioinformatics Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Maggie Levy

Maggie.Levy@mail.huji.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML AA. Performed the experiments: LS DS KB JS EF. Analyzed the data: ML LS DS KB JS EF. Wrote the paper: ML DS JS. Read and approved the final manuscript: DS KB JS EF LS AA ML.