About the Authors

Niyonzima Pierre

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

pierreniyonzima@ymail.com, pierreniyonzima2014@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU), Bujumbura, Burundi

Lydia Nanjala Wamalwa

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

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

William Maina Muiru

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

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Bigirimana Simon

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU), Bujumbura, Burundi

Edward Kanju

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Kampala, Uganda

Morag Elizabeth Ferguson

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

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya

Malu Muia Ndavi

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy

Silver Tumwegamire

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Kigali, Rwanda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.