About the Authors

S. Ashok Prabhu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Buyani Ndlovu

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Juanita Engelbrecht

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Noëlani van den Berg

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

noelani.vdberg@fabi.up.ac.za

Affiliations Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest of any kind.