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Decision making in environments that do not allow much algorithmic modeling is not easy. Even more difficulties arise when part of the knowledge is expressed through linguistic terms instead of numeric values. Agricultural Sciences are such environments and Plant Breeding is one of them. This is why Fuzzy Theories can be very useful in building Decision Support Systems in this field. This chapter...