Acknowledgments

We acknowledge the contributions of colleagues at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières including lab members past and present, specifically Alexandre Custeau, Mikaël Desrosier, Sarah-Eve Gélinas, Drs. Manel Ghribi and Bharat Bhusan Majhi, and Profs. Hugo Germain, Tagnon Missihoun, Geneviève Pépin and Patrick Narbonne that aided the efforts of the authors. This work was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Alliance program Award No ALLRP 554429-20 and ALLRP 570476-2021 to IDP. The authors wish to thank the industrial collaborator Algae-C for sample and support. Additional funding in the form of scholarships to doctoral students (R.B. and S.B.N.) and postdoctoral fellow (E.F.) from Mitacs—Acceleration program grants Award No IT12310 and IT13619 to IDP is also acknowledged. Finally, financial support from the Canada Research Chair on plant specialized metabolism Award No 950-232164 to I.D-P was provided. Warm thanks are also extended to the Canadian taxpayers and to the Canadian government for supporting the Canada Research Chairs Program.