Aimé J. Messiga,^1,*,** Xiuming Hao,² Martine Dorais,³ Carine S. Bineng,¹ Noura Ziadi<sup>4,*

1</sup>Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agassiz Research and Development Centre, 6947 Highway 7, P.O. Box 1000, Agassiz, BC V0M 1A0, Canada.
²Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Harrow Research and Development Centre, 2585 Essex County Road 20, Harrow, ON N0R 1G0, Canada.
³Centre de Recherche et d’Innovation sur les Végétaux (CRIV), Département de Phytologie, Faculté des Sciences de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation, Pavillon Envirotron, Université Laval, Local 1216, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
⁴Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Quebec Research and Development Centre, 2560 Boulevard Hochelaga, Québec, QC G1V 2J3, Canada.

^*Noura Ziadi currently serves as an Associate Editor and Guest Editor, and Aimé Messiga currently serves as an Associate Editor; peer review and editorial decisions regarding this manuscript were handled by Maren Oelbermann.
^**Corresponding author: Aimé J. Messiga (email: aime.messiga@canada.ca).