About the Authors

Mario V. Navasero

Affiliation National Crop Protection Center/CPC, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna, Philippines

Randolph N. Candano

Affiliation National Crop Protection Center/CPC, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna, Philippines

Desiree M. Hautea

dmh.uplb@gmail.com, dmhautea@up.edu.ph

Affiliation Institute of Plant Breeding/CSC, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna, Philippines

Randy A. Hautea

Affiliation International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Frank A. Shotkoski

Affiliation International Programs, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Anthony M. Shelton

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Cornell/NYSAES, Geneva, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DMH MVN RAH FAS. Formal analysis: RNC MVN DMH RAH. Funding acquisition: FAS DMH RAH. Investigation: MVN RNC. Methodology: MVN RNC DMH RAH. Project administration: DMH MVN RAH FAS. Resources: DMH RAH. Supervision: MVN DMH RAH FAS. Visualization: RNC MVN DMH RAH AMS. Writing – original draft: MVN RNC DMH AMS. Writing – review & editing: DMH AMS RAH MVN FAS.