Luis Aureo Alvarez Garcia, Paraguayan-born Puerto Rican plant pathologist (1903 - ?) Described Phyllosticta swietenia A mahogany seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Forester 1;23-4, 1939 First report of Phyllachora balansae on Cedrela sp. A cedar seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Carib. Forester 1(2):26, 1940 Described Acrotheca basellae that causes Acrothecium leaf spot Acrothecium leaf of Basella rubra L. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 27:159-60, 1943 Fusarium bulbigenum v. coffeae today Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. coffeae as a new variety causing a coffee fusarium wilt Studies on coffee root disease in Puerto Rico. I. A Coffee fusarium wilt. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 29(1):1-29, 1945 Described Pleospora tetrasepta 1945 Described a foot-root gummosis with distinctly different symptoms from the long-known disease Glomerella gummosis of Citrus species in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 47(1):38-40, 1963 A new species of Leptosphaeria causing leaf blight of common garden asparagus in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 47(1), 1963 (Leptosphaeria portoricensis) Reported Physalospora rhodina as responsible for dieback of mangos in Puerto Rico With L. López Garcia. Gummosis, dieback and fruit rot disease of mango (Mangifera indica L.) caused by Physalospora rhodina (B & C) Cke. In Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Res. 55:435-50, 1971 |
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