About the Authors

C. H. W. M. R. Bhagya Chandrasekara

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

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

D. Nathasha U. Naranpanawa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Affiliations Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Postgraduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

B. Supun Bandusekara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliations Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

D. K. N. G. Pushpakumara

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

D. Siril A. Wijesundera

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Pradeepa C. G. Bandaranayake

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

pradeepag@agri.pdn.ac.lk, pradeepag@pdn.ac.lk

Affiliation Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.