About the Authors
- Billiah K. Bwana
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: kemuntobilia@gmail.com (BKB); mireji.paul@gmail.com (POM)
Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya
- Paul O. Mireji
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: kemuntobilia@gmail.com (BKB); mireji.paul@gmail.com (POM)
¶‡ POM and AH are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya
- George F. Obiero
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
- Consolata Gakii
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Computing and Information Technology, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya
- Modesta O. Akoth
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya
- Julius N. Mugweru
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya
- Franklin N. Nyabuga
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Embu, Embu, Kenya
- Benson M. Wachira
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Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya
- Rosemary Bateta
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya
- Margaret M. Ng’ang’a
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Chemistry, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
- Ahmed Hassanali
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Roles Writing – review & editing
¶‡ POM and AH are joint senior authors on this work.
Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya, Department of Chemistry, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.