About the Authors

Joseph Ndunguru

Affiliation Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute, Sam Nujoma Road, Box 6226, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Peter Sseruwagi

Affiliation Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute, Sam Nujoma Road, Box 6226, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Fred Tairo

Affiliation Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute, Sam Nujoma Road, Box 6226, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Francesca Stomeo

Affiliation Biosciences eastern and central Africa, The International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya (the BecA-ILRI Hub), P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya

Solomon Maina

Affiliation Biosciences eastern and central Africa, The International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya (the BecA-ILRI Hub), P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya

Appolinaire Djinkeng

Affiliation Biosciences eastern and central Africa, The International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya (the BecA-ILRI Hub), P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya

Monica Kehoe

Affiliation Crop Protection Branch, Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia, Bentley Delivery Centre, Perth 6983, Western Australia, Australia

Laura M. Boykin

laura.boykin@uwa.edu.au

Affiliation The University of Western Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology and School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Crawley, Perth 6009, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JN PS FT FS SM AD MK LB. Performed the experiments: JN PS FT FS SM MK LB. Analyzed the data: JN PS MK LB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JN PS FT FS SM AD MK LB. Wrote the paper: JN PS FT FS SM AD MK LB.