Being in the terminal phase of my scientific career I am grabbing the literary license to tell a story of the discovery of two biological properties of chitosan, namely, its gene activating potential [1] and its anti-microbial properties [2]. The geneticist, Gregor Mendel, selected peas as a genetic tool and I garnered a pea pod system from an Australian pathologist, I.A.M. Cruickshank, as a bi...

Aegiphila brachiata is a forest native Brazilian species, known as peloteiro, with high capacity for biomass production and resistance to disturbances, having potential use in degraded ecosystems. Seeing the scarcity of studies on we aimed determine morphobiometric characteristics fruits, seeds seedlings; evaluate its germination potential. We determined physical fruits seeds, morphological des...