Population growth has been closely associated with agricultural production, since the first famine predicted by Malthus (1798) up to the Green Revolution of the past century. Today, we continue to face increasing demand ...

Fig tree (Ficus carica L.) breeding programs using conventional methods, such as directed crosses, to obtain new cultivars, are unworkable in many countries, including Brazil. Consequently, genetic breeding through mutagenesis ...

In a special edition of Science “what we don’t know?” dedicated to the 25 most important questions that scientists of all disciplines faced at the time, one of them was: “How does a single somatic cell from an adult plant?” ...