About the Authors

Ousmane Diene

odiene16@yahoo.com

Affiliation Direction de la Protection des Végétaux, Ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Equipement Rural, Thiaroye, Dakar, Sénégal

Nobuo Sakagami

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami-machi, Ibaraki, Japan

Kazuhiko Narisawa

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami-machi, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KN OD. Performed the experiments: KN OD. Analyzed the data: KN OD NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KN OD NS. Wrote the paper: KN OD NS. Performed the XRF analysis and analyzed the data: NS.