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.