About the Authors
- Edgar S. Correa
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: e_correa@javeriana.edu.co
Affiliations Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, School of Engineering, Bogota, Colombia, UMR AGAP Institut, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France, CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier, France
Competing Interests
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