Modern techniques and equipment have proved to be of great value in accelerating the harvest and productivity of crops. This is due to precision agriculture that has evolved to improve the knowledge of the field, however, ...

Ratoon stunt disease (Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli), is currently considered the main disease of sugarcane in all major producing countries. Because propagating materials is the sole source of primary inoculum, the use of ...

Sugarcane is an important crop for Brazil, whose production area extends over approximately 10 million hectares, making the country the world's largest producer. Sugarcane Breeding is responsible for the production and ...

Limonene, a terpene found in essential oil extracted from citrus peel, has great applicability on industry. Is it known that there are great limonene concentration differences among citrus varieties, however, limonene ...

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is the main leafy vegetable, with the curly type with light green leaves the preferred in Brazil. However, leaves of intense green color (higher chlorophyll content) have increased consumer ...

The consumption of Capsicum peppers has been growing, encouraging cultivation and increasing the demand for new cultivars with better agronomic and nutritional qualities. The objective was to evaluate the agronomic, ...

Indirect somatic embryogenesis (ISE) is one of the most used regeneration pathways to obtain sugarcane genetically modified plants. ISE regulatory genes have been widely studied in monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous ...