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Karen Johana Ortega Villalba1 , Fabrice Vaillant Barka2,3\*, Carlos Vélez Pasos1 and Pablo Emilio Rodríguez<sup>2</sup>

1 Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

2 Colombian Agropecuary Research Corporation (AGROSAVIA), C.I. La Selva, Rionegro, Colombia

3 International Research Center in Agronomy for Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France

\*Address all correspondence to: fabrice.vaillant@cirad.fr

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