About the Authors

Shaimaa Mahmoud Ahmed

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Gene expression and regulation technology lab, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt, Department of Biodiversity and Crop Improvement, International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Alsamman Mahmoud Alsamman

Roles Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

a.hamwieh@cgiar.org (AH); smahmoud@ageri.sci.eg (AMS)

Affiliations Molecular Genetics and Genome Mapping, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Giza, Egypt, African Genome Center, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco

Abdulqader Jighly

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agriculture Victoria, AgriBio, Centre for AgriBiosciences, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

Mohamed Hassan Mubarak

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Plant Production Department, Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Sciences, El-Arish, North Sinai, Egypt

Khaled Al-Shamaa

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Geoinformatics & Research Data Management, International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas, Giza, Egypt

Tawffiq Istanbuli

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Crop Improvement, International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Osama Ahmed Momtaz

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gene expression and regulation technology lab, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Achraf El Allali

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Genome Center, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Ben Guerir, Morocco

Aladdin Hamwieh

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

a.hamwieh@cgiar.org (AH); smahmoud@ageri.sci.eg (AMS)

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Crop Improvement, International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas, Agricultural Research Centre, Giza, Egypt

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.