About the Authors

Daniel Nyadanu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dnyadanu@gmail.com

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Samuel Tetteh Lowor

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

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Abraham Akpertey

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Dèdéou Apocalypse Tchokponhoué

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Laboratory of Genetics, Biotechnology and Seed Science, University of Abomey-Calvi, Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin

Prince Pobee

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Jerome Agbesi Dogbatse

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Daniel Okyere

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Frederick Amon-Armah

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Micheal Brako-Marfo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana, New Tafo-Akim, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.