About the Authors

Martin Michael Martin

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

martinm@nm-aist.ac.tz

Affiliations Department of Food Biotechnology and Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (MBB), College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CoNAS), University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Haikael David Martin

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Food Biotechnology and Nutritional Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

Beatus Modesty Lyimo

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Health and Bio-Medical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bioengineering, the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), Arusha, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.