About the Authors

Kiana Kirsty van Rayne

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Oluwafemi Ayodeji Adebo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Obiro Cuthbert Wokadala

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Agriculture, University of Mpumalanga, Nelspruit, South Africa

Lucky Sithole

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Nomali Ziphorah Ngobese

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ngobesen@uj.ac.za

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.