About the Authors

Alan Soffan

Affiliation King Saud University, Chair of Date Palm Research, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Binu Antony

bantony@ksu.edu.sa

Affiliation King Saud University, Chair of Date Palm Research, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Mahmoud Abdelazim

Affiliation King Saud University, Chair of Date Palm Research, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Paraj Shukla

Affiliation King Saud University, Chair of Date Palm Research, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Witjaksono Witjaksono

Affiliation Gadjah Mada University, Plant Protection Department, College of Agriculture, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia

Saleh A. Aldosari

Affiliation King Saud University, Chair of Date Palm Research, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Abdulrahman S. Aldawood

Affiliation King Saud University, Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BA SAA. Formal analysis: AS BA. Funding acquisition: BA SAA. Investigation: AS BA MA PS SAA WW. Project administration: BA SAA. Resources: BA. Software: AS BA. Supervision: BA SAA. Validation: BA AS. Visualization: BA. Writing – original draft: AS BA. Writing – review & editing: BA SAA PS ASA.