About the Authors

Max Kolton

Affiliations Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Noa Sela

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel

Yigal Elad

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel

Eddie Cytryn

Eddie@volcani.agri.gov.il

Affiliation Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, the Volcani Center, Agricultural Research Organization, Bet Dagan, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK YE EC. Performed the experiments: MK. Analyzed the data: MK YE EC NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK NS. Wrote the manuscript: MK YE EC NS.