About the Authors

Peter M. Etaware

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

peterparkers007@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Abiodun R. Adedeji

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Idi-Ayunre, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Oyedeji I. Osowole

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Adegboyega C. Odebode

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.