1. French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel and Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.
2. The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel and Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.
3. Department of Plant Sciences, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
4. The National Institute for Biotechnology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel and Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel.