About the Authors

Kariuki Ndungu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kariukindungu36@yahoo.com

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

Daniel Thungu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

Florence Wamwiri

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

Paul Mireji

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research—Coast, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya

Geoffrey Ngae

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Food Crops Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Nairobi, Kenya

Purity Gitonga

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

James Mulinge

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Kenya Methodist University, Nairobi, Kenya

Joanna Auma

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

John Thuita

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Meru University of Science and Technology, Meru, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.