“…Publications with African Prominent Authorship pea (Pisum sativum) [51,52] [ 51,52] tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) [53][54][55] [ [53][54][55] sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) [56][57][58] [ 57,58] lentil (Lens culinaris) [59,60] wheat (various species) [61,62] [ 61,62] barrel medic (Medicago truncatula) [63,64] [ 63,64] cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) [33,65] [ 33,65] broad bean (Vicia faba) [66,67] [ 66,67] barley (Hordeum vulgare) [68] [68] flax (Linum usitatissimum) [69] date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) [70] grey mangrove (Avicennia marina) [71] African wormwood (Artemisia afra) [ To further restrict our analysis to research prominently conducted in Africa, only 48 publications were retained for further analysis, i.e., those with first and/or corresponding authors affiliated with an African country (Table 1, plant species and references in bold). Hence, 22 papers were excluded, as they either did not report an African affiliation as a prominent authorship [15,19,20,27,…”