About the Authors

Amila A. Dissanayake

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

C. Michael Wagner

Affiliation Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Muraleedharan G. Nair

nairm@msu.edu

Affiliations Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, Chair of Date Palm Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MGN CMW AAD. Data curation: MGN CMW. Formal analysis: AAD MGN. Funding acquisition: MGN CMW. Investigation: AAD MGN CMW. Methodology: MGN CMW AAD. Project administration: MGN. Resources: MGN CMW. Supervision: MGN. Validation: MGN CMW AAD. Writing – original draft: AAD. Writing – review & editing: AAD CMW MGN.