About the Authors

Avital Yosef Friedjung

Contributed equally to this work with: Avital Yosef Friedjung, Sikander Pal Choudhary

Affiliation Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel

Sikander Pal Choudhary

Contributed equally to this work with: Avital Yosef Friedjung, Sikander Pal Choudhary

Affiliations Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel, Department of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu, India

Nativ Dudai

rshimon@bgu.ac.il (RS); nativdud@gmail.com (ND)

Affiliation The Unit of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay, Israel

Shimon Rachmilevitch

rshimon@bgu.ac.il (RS); nativdud@gmail.com (ND)

Affiliation Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR AYF ND. Performed the experiments: SR AYF SPC ND. Analyzed the data: SR AYF SPC ND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR ND. Wrote the paper: SR AYF SPC ND.