About the Authors

Diane Mostert

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

diane@sun.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Agustin B. Molina

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioversity International–Asia Pacific, IRRI campus, Los Banos, Philippines

Jeff Daniells

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, South Johnstone, Queensland, Australia

Gerda Fourie

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Catur Hermanto

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indonesian Agency for Agriculture Research and Development, Jakarta, Indonesia

Chih-Ping Chao

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Taiwan Banana Research Institute, Pingtung, Taiwan

Emily Fabregar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Lapanday Foods Corporation, Barrio Pampanga, Lanang, Davao City, Philippines

Vida G. Sinohin

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bioversity International–Asia Pacific, IRRI campus, Los Banos, Philippines

Nik Masdek

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, Selangor, Malaysia

Raman Thangavelu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICAR-National Research Center for Banana, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Chunyu Li

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institution of Fruit Tree Research, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ganyun Yi

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Institution of Fruit Tree Research, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Lizel Mostert

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Altus Viljoen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Competing Interests

We hereby also declare that no competing interest exists with the Lapanday Foods Corporation and that there is no alteration in our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.