About the Authors

Frances R. Thistlethwaite

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Omnia Gamal El-Dien

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Pharmacognosy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Blaise Ratcliffe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jaroslav Klápště

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd.), Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, New Zealand

Ilga Porth

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Charles Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America

Michael U. Stoehr

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Victoria, BC, Canada

Pär K. Ingvarsson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Linnean Centre for Plant Biology, Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Yousry A. El-Kassaby

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

y.el-kassaby@ubc.ca

Affiliation Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

No competing interests.