About the Authors

Lahcen Benomar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

lahcen.benomar.1@gmail.com

Affiliation Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Mohamed Taha Moutaoufik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada

Raed Elferjani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Saskatoon Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Nathalie Isabel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Québec, QC, Canada

Annie DesRochers

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Amos, QC Canada

Ahmed El Guellab

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada

Rim Khlifa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Lala Amina Idrissi Hassania

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biotechnologies végétales, É, Faculté des Sciences, Université Ibn Zohr Agadir, Morocco

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.