“…Reports have shown that yield estimates for the 2017/2018 season is of 3,258 Kg/ha, which agrees with the technological packages used, becoming the second greatest average productivity in the country. Part of this success is the result of genetic improvement programs developed by Brazilian research institutes and universities (Bortolotto et al, 2015;Camargos, Campos, Alves, Ferreira, & Matsuo, 2019;Harada, Gonçalves, Kiihl, & Destro, 2015;Oda et al, 2015;Silva et al, 2017).…”