About the Authors

Noëlani van den Berg

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

noelani.vdberg@fabi.up.ac.za

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Waheed Mahomed

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Nicholas A. Olivier

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, African Centre for Gene Technologies Microarray Facility, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Velushka Swart

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Bridget G. Crampton

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.