ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Edward Blumwald (University of
California) for sharing the amircv seeds used in this work. We
also thank Dr. Yael Friedmann from the microscopy core facility at The
Hebrew University’s Life Science core facility for her technical support
with confocal and EM analysis. This work was supported by funding from
the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
(CNPq-Brazil,Grant 407276/2021-1), the National Institute of Science and
Technology in Plant Physiology under Stress Conditions (INCT Plant
Stress Physiology/CNPq-Brazil /Grant 406455/2022-8), ) and the FAPEMIG
(Foundation for Research Assistance of the Minas Gerais State, Brazil,
Grant RED-00053-16). Work at the TAW group is supported by the Israeli
Science Foundation, grant number 1899/16. Scholarships granted by the
National Council for Scientific
and Technological Development (CNPq-Brazil) and Council for Higher
Education (Malag-Israel) to JASB and research fellowships awarded by
CNPq-Brazil to ANN and WLA are also gratefully acknowledged.