About the Authors

Baffour Badu-Apraku

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

b.baduapraku@cgiar.org

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Samuel Adewale

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

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Agre Angelot Paterne

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

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Melaku Gedil

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Johnson Toyinbo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Robert Asiedu

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

Competing Interests

On behalf of all authors, I disclose that there was no competing interests that could be perceived to bias this work. I have also acknowledged the financial support of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Integrated Genotyping Service and Support (IGSS) platform grant of BecA-ILRI, Kenya and IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria.