Neutrino and charged fermion masses provide important constraints on grand
unified theories. We illustrate this by focusing on a renormalizable,
supersymmetric SO(10) theory proposed long ago, that recently attracted great
interest in view of its minimality. We show how the nature of the light Higgs,
which depends on the GUT scale fields, gets reflected on the precise
predictions for fermion masses and mixings. We exemplify this on the case of
dominant Type II see-saw, which gets severely constrained and is likely to
fail.Comment: Based on talks given by G. Senjanovic in the plenary session of
PASCOS05 Conference and by A. Melfo at the 2005 Gran Sasso Summer Institut