Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the General Directorate of Scientific Research and Technological
Development DGRSDT (Direction Générale de la Recherche Scientifique et du Développement
Technologique), Algeria within the PNR Project n°1/E1603/1347 (N.Z.) and NSF Plant Genome Research Program Award IOS-1238057 (J.H.W.) with additional support from National Institute of Food and Agriculture Project VA-160055 (D.C.H.), National Institute of Food and Agriculture Project VA-160111 (J.H.W.) and BARD award no. US-4616-13 (J.H.W.). The first author’s (F.B.) visiting scholar opportunity during a PhD program was supported by a grant from the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS – Algeria).