About the Authors

Kobi Buxdorf

Contributed equally to this work with: Kobi Buxdorf, Hila Yaffe

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

Hila Yaffe

Contributed equally to this work with: Kobi Buxdorf, Hila Yaffe

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

Omer Barda

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 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: KB HY OB ML. Performed the experiments: KB HY OB. Analyzed the data: KB HY OB ML. Wrote the paper: KB ML.