About the Authors

Millicent R. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

millicent.smith@cgiar.org

Current address: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Telangana, India

Affiliation Sydney Institute of Agriculture, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Erik Veneklaas

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia

Jose Polania

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

Idupulapati M. Rao

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

Current address: Plant Polymer Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, United States of America.

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

Stephen E. Beebe

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

Andrew Merchant

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sydney Institute of Agriculture, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.