About the Authors

Yemima Givaty-Rapp

Affiliation French Associates Institute of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Narendra Singh Yadav

Affiliation French Associates Institute of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Asif Khan

Affiliation French Associates Institute of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Gideon Grafi

ggrafi@bgu.ac.il

Affiliation French Associates Institute of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, The Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GG YG-R. Formal analysis: YG-R. Funding acquisition: GG. Investigation: YG-R NSY AK. Methodology: YG-R AK. Supervision: GG. Validation: YG-R NSY AK. Writing – original draft: GG. Writing – review & editing: GG YG-R NSY AK.