About the Authors

María Gabriela Maridueña-Zavala

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Pablo Antonio Chong-Aguirre

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Andrea Freire-Peñaherrera

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Arturo Moreno

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

José Ignacio Reyes-De-Corcuera

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

María Isabel Jiménez-Feijoo

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Juan Manuel Cevallos-Cevallos

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

jmceva@espol.edu.ec

Affiliations Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Campus Gustavo Galindo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.