About the Authors

Bianca J. Reeksting

bjreeksting@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Nanette Coetzer

Affiliations Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Waheed Mahomed

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Juanita Engelbrecht

Affiliation Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Noëlani van den Berg

Affiliations Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJR WM NvdB. Performed the experiments: BJR WM JE. Analyzed the data: BJR WM NC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NvdB. Wrote the paper: BJR NvdB.