About the Authors

Richard M. Machoka

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Florence Ng’ong’a

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

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Christabel Muhonja

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Machakos University, Machakos, Kenya

Heshborne Tindih

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Machakos University, Machakos, Kenya

Zachary Getenga

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Physical Sciences, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, Machakos University, Machakos, Kenya

Sören Thiele-Bruhn

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

thiele@uni-trier.de

Affiliation Department of Soil Sciences, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.