About the Authors

Collins Kipngetich Tanui

Contributed equally to this work with: Collins Kipngetich Tanui, Divine Yutefar Shyntum, Stefan Louis Priem, Jacques Theron, Lucy Novungayo Moleleki

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

Divine Yutefar Shyntum

Contributed equally to this work with: Collins Kipngetich Tanui, Divine Yutefar Shyntum, Stefan Louis Priem, Jacques Theron, Lucy Novungayo Moleleki

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

Stefan Louis Priem

Contributed equally to this work with: Collins Kipngetich Tanui, Divine Yutefar Shyntum, Stefan Louis Priem, Jacques Theron, Lucy Novungayo Moleleki

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

Jacques Theron

Contributed equally to this work with: Collins Kipngetich Tanui, Divine Yutefar Shyntum, Stefan Louis Priem, Jacques Theron, Lucy Novungayo Moleleki

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Lucy Novungayo Moleleki

Contributed equally to this work with: Collins Kipngetich Tanui, Divine Yutefar Shyntum, Stefan Louis Priem, Jacques Theron, Lucy Novungayo Moleleki

lucy.moleleki@up.ac.za

Affiliations Forestry, Agriculture and Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CKT DYS JT LNM. Data curation: CKT. Formal analysis: CKT SLP. Funding acquisition: LNM. Investigation: CKT DYS SLP. Methodology: CKT DYS SLP LNM. Project administration: CKT LNM. Resources: LNM. Supervision: LNM. Validation: CKT DYS SLP JT LNM. Visualization: CKT DYS SLP JT LNM. Writing – original draft: CKT. Writing – review & editing: CKT DYS SLP JT LNM.