About the Authors

Lauranne Gateau-Rey

Contributed equally to this work with: Lauranne Gateau-Rey, Edmund V. J. Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

lamg2@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Edmund V. J. Tanner

Contributed equally to this work with: Lauranne Gateau-Rey, Edmund V. J. Tanner

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bruno Rapidel

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CIRAD, UMR SYSTEM, Montpellier, France, UMR SYSTEM, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France

Jean-Philippe Marelli

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation MARS/USDA Cocoa Laboratory, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Stefan Royaert

Roles Project administration

Affiliation MARS Center for Cocoa Science, Itajuípe, Bahia, Brazil

Competing Interests

This study was funded by a MARS Inc. studentship for the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge (grant number: RG75058). Two of the authors of this study are currently employed by this commercial funder. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.