About the Authors

Elijah Ateka

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

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya

Titus Alicai

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

Affiliation National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Kampala, Uganda

Joseph Ndunguru

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

Affiliation Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Fred Tairo

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

Affiliation Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Peter Sseruwagi

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

Affiliation Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute (MARI), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Samuel Kiarie

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

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya

Timothy Makori

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

Affiliation Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya

Monica A. Kehoe

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

Affiliation Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, DPIRD Diagnostic Laboratory Services, South Perth, WA, Australia

Laura M. Boykin

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

laura.boykin@uwa.edu.au

Affiliation School of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.