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).