ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors thank the students of the Plant Protection Unit at NUoL for
their help with field collections and for working on the specimens in
the laboratory. We are thankful to Dr. Christian Hartmann for arranging
the first author’s hosting at IEES Paris, Université Paris-Est Créteil
(UPEC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and French
National Centre for Scientific Research / Sorbonne Université from May
to August 2022. We also thank Dr. Phoutthasone Sibounnavong, Vice Head
Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, NUoL for providing
the necessary facilities. Thanks are extended to Dr. Naoise Nunan, Dr.
Thomas Lerch, Dr. Virginie Roy, and Dr. Lise Dupont for their kind care
during the first author’s stay in France, to Mrs. Laurence Goury for
providing a training course, to Mr. Thierry Pilorge for his French
language course, and to Mr. Johnny Louangphan for his help. This
research was partly funded by an Erasmus+ grant funded through UPEC and
IRD, which supported the first author’s visit to France.