**Author details**

Abdelilah Meddich1 \*, Abderrahim Boutasknit1 , Mohamed Anli1 , Meriame Ait Ahmed1 , Abdelilah El Abbassi1 , Hanane Boutaj1 , Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar1,2 and Ali Boumezzough3

1 Laboratory of Agro-Food, Biotechnologies and Valorization of Vegetal Bioresources, Faculty of Semlalia Sciences, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco

2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Mohammedia, Hassan II University, Morocco

3 Ex-Full Professor University, Morocco

\*Address all correspondence to: a.meddich@uca.ma and aboumezzough@gmail.com

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