About the Authors
- Rangeline Azevedo da Silva
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Current address: Instituto Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Affiliations Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, Cocoa Research Center, CEPLAC/CEPEC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
- Gustavo Souza
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Affiliation Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
- Lívia Santos Lima Lemos
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Current address: Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia, Brazil.
Affiliation Cocoa Research Center, CEPLAC/CEPEC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
- Uilson Vanderlei Lopes
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Affiliation Cocoa Research Center, CEPLAC/CEPEC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
- Nara Geórgia Ribeiro Braz Patrocínio
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Affiliations Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, Cocoa Research Center, CEPLAC/CEPEC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
- Rafael Moysés Alves
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Affiliation Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Belém, Pará, Brazil
- Lucília Helena Marcellino
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Affiliation Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
- Didier Clement
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Affiliations Cocoa Research Center, CEPLAC/CEPEC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil, CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France
- Fabienne Micheli
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Affiliations Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, CIRAD, UMR AGAP, Montpellier, France
- Karina Peres Gramacho
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* E-mail: gramachokp@hotmail.com
Affiliation Cocoa Research Center, CEPLAC/CEPEC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil
Competing Interests
The organization EMBRAPA did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Thus, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: KPG RAS GS LSLL. Data curation: RAS KPG. Formal analysis: RAS GS LSLL UVL NGRBP. Funding acquisition: GS KPG FM. Investigation: RAS GS LSLL. Methodology: RAS GS LSLL. Project administration: KPG FM. Resources: RMA DC FM GS. Software: RAS KPG GS. Supervision: KPG FM GS. Validation: RAS GS LSLL. Visualization: KPG RAS LSLL. Writing – original draft: RAS KPG GS UVL FM LHM. Writing – review & editing: KPG LSLL GS.