About the Authors

Charles O. Nwuche

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Oguejiofo T. Ujam

akachukwu.ibezim@unn.edu.ng (AI); oguejiofo.ujam@unn.edu.ng (OTU)

Affiliation Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Akachukwu Ibezim

akachukwu.ibezim@unn.edu.ng (AI); oguejiofo.ujam@unn.edu.ng (OTU)

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Ifeoma B. Ujam

Affiliation Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors declared no competing interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: OTU CON AI. Data curation: IBU. Formal analysis: AI. Investigation: CON OTU AI. Methodology: CON AI. Project administration: IBU. Resources: OTU AI. Supervision: OTU. Validation: CON OTU AI. Visualization: AI. Writing – original draft: CON OTU AI. Writing – review & editing: OTU AI.