About the Authors

David Romero-Estévez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Estudios Aplicados en Química (CESAQ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Thomas L.P. Couvreur

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations DIADE, Université de Montpellier, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier, Occitanie, France, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Ambientales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Michael Ayala

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Eduardo Valarezo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Química, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

Jorge G. Figueroa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Química, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador

María Judith Terán

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Centro de Estudios Aplicados en Química (CESAQ), Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Álvaro Rivera

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Laboratorio de Fitopatología, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Chimborazo (ESPOCH), Riobamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador

Rommel Montúfar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rjmontufar@puce.edu.ec

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Ambientales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.