About the Authors

Aristide Carlos Houdegbe

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

houdariscarl@gmail.com

Affiliations Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Science Unit (GBioS), Laboratory of Crop Production, Physiology and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin, School of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa

Enoch G. Achigan-Dako

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Science Unit (GBioS), Laboratory of Crop Production, Physiology and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin

E. O. Dêêdi Sogbohossou

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Science Unit (GBioS), Laboratory of Crop Production, Physiology and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin

Alfred O. Odindo

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

Affiliation School of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa

M. Eric Schranz

Roles Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Julia Sibiya

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Republic of South Africa, Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program (SAS), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.