Dr. Everton Geraldo de Morais obtained his Master's degree and PhD in Soil Science from the Federal University of Lavras. He is an Agricultural Engineer and Technician in Agriculture and Animal Science from the Federal Institute of Minas Gerais's Bambuí campus. He has experience in the areas of agronomy, soil fertility and plant nutrition, humic substances and their effects on soil and plant growth, and the agronomic efficiency of organomineral fertilizers, and, more recently, he has been studying beneficial elements, particularly how the use of selenium and iodine in plants interacts with other elements and how this can mitigate different types of stresses.