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.