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Affiliations

• ¹ Crops for Nutrition and Health, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Km 17 Recta Cali-Palmira, Apartado Aereo 6713, 763537 Cali, Colombia. Electronic address: a.fernando@cgiar.org.
• ² Crops for Nutrition and Health, Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Km 17 Recta Cali-Palmira, Apartado Aereo 6713, 763537 Cali, Colombia.
• ³ Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Japan.
• ⁴ Stable Agricultural Production Program, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Science (JIRCAS), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
• ⁵ Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.