About the Authors

Pfariso Maumela

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

pmaumela@uj.ac.za

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus, Doornfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sinomncedi Magida

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus, Doornfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mahloro Hope Serepa-Dlamini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein Campus, Doornfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have no competing interests to declare.