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The author presents a short survey about Darboux theory. As a matter of fact the best two improvements to Darboux theory are due to Jouanoulou in 1979 and to \textit{M. J. Prelle} and \textit{M. F. Singer} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 279, 215-229 (1983; Zbl 0527.12016)]. The first showing that if the number of algebraic solutions to a polynomial system has a rational first integral; and the second proving that if a polynomial system has an elementary first integral, then the integral can be computed by using the algebraic solutions to the system. Finally, the paper presents two open problems related with the maximum degree of the algebraic solutions that a polynomial vector field can have. Open question 1: Give an effective procedure to find an upper bound \(N\) for the degrees of the algebraic solutions to a given polynomial system with degree \(m \geq 2\). Open question 2: For a fixed degree \(m \geq 2\) prove the existence of an upper bound \(N(m)\) for the degrees of the isolated algebraic solutions to all polynomial systems of degree \(m\) which do not have a rational first integral. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00033].