Frances L. Bekele:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-4358
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Gillian G. Bidaisee: Role: Data curationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Mathilde Allegre: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Xavier Argout: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Olivier Fouet: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – review & editing
Michel Boccara: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Duraisamy Saravanakumar: Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Isaac Bekele: Role: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Claire Lanaud: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole:
Writing – review & editing
Vandana Jaiswal: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
6
October
2022
Publication date Collection: 2022
Volume: 17
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0260907
Affiliations
[1
]
Cocoa Research Centre, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
and Tobago
[2
]
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
(CIRAD), UMR AGAP Institute, Montpellier, France
[3
]
AGAP Institute, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, University of Montpellier, Montpellier,
France
[4
]
Department of Food Production, Faculty of Food and Agriculture, The University of
the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
[5
]
Faculty of Food and Agriculture, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine,
Trinidad and Tobago
CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, INDIA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-21-36485
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260907
PMC ID: 9536643
PubMed ID: 36201531
SO-VID: b6293eb8-52d2-41c2-8ae2-60a9c7e505ad
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Funded by:
Government of Trinidad and Tobago
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-4358
Frances L. Bekele
Funded by:
Cocoa Research Association
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4345-4358
Frances L. Bekele
Funded by:
CIRAD
Award Recipient
:
Claire Lanaud
Financial support from the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and the Cocoa Research
Association, UK, and CIRAD, France that facilitated collation of the phenotypic and
genotypic data, respectively, is gratefully acknowledged. However, the study design,
conduct of this research and preparation of the manuscript were not influenced by
the funding agencies.
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Proteins
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Genome Analysis
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Plant Anatomy
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