About the Authors

Mauricio R. Bellon

m.bellon@cgiar.org

Affiliation Bioversity International, Maccarese, Italy

Gervais D. Ntandou-Bouzitou

Affiliation Bioversity International, Cotonou, Benin

Francesco Caracciolo

Affiliation University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MRB GNB. Data curation: GNB MRB FC. Formal analysis: FC. Funding acquisition: MRB. Investigation: GNB MRB. Methodology: MRB GNB FC. Project administration: GNB MRB. Resources: GNB. Supervision: MRB GNB. Validation: GNB FC. Visualization: MRB. Writing – original draft: MRB. Writing – review & editing: MRB GNB FC.