About the Authors

Zohar Ben-Simhon

Affiliations Unit of Deciduous Fruit Tree Sciences, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, Israel, Faculty of Biology, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Sylvie Judeinstein

Affiliation Southern Arava Research and Development, Hevel Eilot, 88820, Israel

Taly Trainin

Affiliation Unit of Deciduous Fruit Tree Sciences, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, Israel

Rotem Harel-Beja

Affiliation Unit of Deciduous Fruit Tree Sciences, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, Israel

Irit Bar-Ya'akov

Affiliation Unit of Deciduous Fruit Tree Sciences, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, Israel

Hamutal Borochov-Neori

Affiliation Southern Arava Research and Development, Hevel Eilot, 88820, Israel

Doron Holland

vhhollan@volcani.agri.gov.il

Affiliation Unit of Deciduous Fruit Tree Sciences, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30095, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZBS HBN DH. Performed the experiments: ZBS SJ TT RHB IBY. Analyzed the data: ZBS SJ HBN DH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HBN DH. Wrote the paper: ZBS DH.