About the Authors

Gea Galluzzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Gea Galluzzi, Evert Thomas

geagalluzzi@gmail.com

Affiliation Regional Office for the Americas, Bioversity International, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Dominique Dufour

Affiliation CIRAD, Centro de cooperación internacional en investigación agronómica para el desarrollo, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Evert Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Gea Galluzzi, Evert Thomas

Affiliation Regional Office for the Americas, Bioversity International, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Maarten van Zonneveld

Affiliation Sub-regional Office for the Americas, Bioversity International, Turrialba, Cartago,Costa Rica

Andrés Felipe Escobar Salamanca

Affiliation CIAT, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Andrés Giraldo Toro

Affiliation CIAT, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Andrés Rivera

Affiliation CIAT, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Hector Salazar Duque

Affiliation Programa de Biología, Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia

Harold Suárez Baron

Affiliation Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

Gerardo Gallego

Affiliation CIAT, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Xavier Scheldeman

Affiliation Regional Office for the Americas, Bioversity International, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Alonso Gonzalez Mejia

Affiliation CIAT, Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MvZ DD XS G. Gallego AGM. Performed the experiments: AES AGT AR HSD HSB. Analyzed the data: G. Galluzzi ET. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD MvZ G. Gallego AGM. Wrote the paper: G. Galluzzi ET. Obtained permits for germplasm transfer/collection and undertook field sampling: XS MvZ DD AGM.