About the Authors

Baker D. Aljawasim

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Al-Muthanna University, Samawah, Al Muthanna Province, Iraq

Affiliation Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America

Patricia Richardson

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America

Chuansheng Mei

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, Virginia, United States of America

Robert L. Chretien

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, Virginia, United States of America

J. Scott Lowman

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research, Danville, Virginia, United States of America

Jayesh B. Samtani

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

jsamtani@vt.edu

Affiliation Hampton Roads Agricultural Research and Extension Center, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.