About the Authors

Rey Gaston Loor Solorzano

Affiliations UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France, EET-Pichilingue, INIAP, Quevedo El Empalme, Ecuador

Olivier Fouet

Affiliation UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Arnaud Lemainque

Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, CEA Institut de Génomique, Evry, France

Sylvana Pavek

Affiliation Centre National de Génotypage, CEA Institut de Génomique, Evry, France

Michel Boccara

Affiliations UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France, Cocoa Research Unit (CRU), University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Xavier Argout

Affiliation UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Freddy Amores

Affiliation EET-Pichilingue, INIAP, Quevedo El Empalme, Ecuador

Brigitte Courtois

Affiliation UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Ange Marie Risterucci

Affiliation UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Claire Lanaud

claire.lanaud@cirad.fr

Affiliation UMR AGAP, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RGLS CL FA. Performed the experiments: RGLS OF AL SP MB. Analyzed the data: RGLS CL XA BC AMR AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RGLS FA MB. Wrote the paper: RGLS CL.