About the Authors

Mustapha Aouida

Mustapha.aouida@kaust.edu.sa (MA); dramotar.hmr@ssss.gouv.qc.ca (DR)

Affiliation Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

Marta Rubio Texeira

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Botany and Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Flanders, Belgium

Johan M. Thevelein

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Botany and Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Flanders, Belgium

Richard Poulin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology, Laval University Quebec, Canada

Dindial Ramotar

Mustapha.aouida@kaust.edu.sa (MA); dramotar.hmr@ssss.gouv.qc.ca (DR)

Affiliation Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Research Center, University of Montreal, Immunology and Oncology, Montreal, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA MRT RP DR. Performed the experiments: MA MRT DR. Analyzed the data: MA MRT JMT RP DR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MA MRT JMT RP DR. Wrote the paper: MA MRT JMT RP DR.