About the Authors

Fanuel Kawaka

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

fkawaka@tum.ac.ke

Affiliations Department of Applied Plant Sciences, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya

Huxley Makonde

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, Technical University of Mombasa, Mombasa, Kenya

Mathews Dida

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Applied Plant Sciences, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya

Peter Opala

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Soil Science, Maseno University, Maseno, Kenya

Omwoyo Ombori

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

John Maingi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

John Muoma

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, Kakamega, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.