Álvaro Santos Costa, Brazilian plant pathologist (Sorocaba,
São Paulo State 09 January 1912 –Campinas, São Paulo State 18 August 1998) ACHIEVEMENTS
Considered
as one of leading plant virologists in the world Authored
about 100 papers Performed
classical and pioneer studies on survey, identification, characterization and
epidemiological studies of viruses affecting horticultural crops Identified
carrot motley dwarf virus Described
bean golden mosaic disease (1965) Described Colletotrichum gossypii South var. cephalosporioides, the fungus that
causes ramulosis disease of cotton (1935-6) Described
cassava vein mosaic disease (1940) Described
tomato yellow top virus (1949) Described Brazilian tomato curly top vírus
(1949) with C.W. Bennett With C.W. Bennett described Euphorbia mosaic bigeminivirus (1950) Described cotton anthocyanosis virus (1956) First to report tomato spotted wilt virus in groundnut (1941) Identified
papaya ringspot virus as the limiting production factor for papaya Discovered
that degeneration of strawberry culture was due to the accumulation of at least
four different viruses compounded by continuous vegetative propagation Characterized
virus and phytoplasma diseases of cassava and demonstrated that the Brazilian and African cassava mosaics
were caused by different viruses Authored
pioneering work on whitefly-transmitted diseases in several cultivated and wild
plants With T.J.
Grant discovered mild strains of citrus tristeza virus (1951) and with G.W.
Mueller used it for cross protection against severe strains With F.M. do Nascimento & H.E. Borges discovered that bronzy of cotton plant is due to a mite (1955) Described the morphology of virus tristeza With D.M. Silva, A.R. Oliveira, G.W. Muller e E. W. Kitajima. Thread-like
particles associated with tristeza disease of citrus. Nature 201 (4923):1011-2, 1964 Described chicote de Piralima With H.S. Prates & G.W. Muller. Chicote, anomalia da Piralima de causa desconhecida. Summa Phytopathol. 7(1-2):18-9, 1981 With E.W. Kitajima & J.A. Betti. Strawberry veinbanding vírus, a member of the cauliflower mosaic group. J. Gen. Virol. 20:117-8, 1973 With C.M. Franco. A virus technique useful to diagnose foliar deficiencies. Plant Physiol. 26:6250-8, 1951 With Krug described purple bud of White potato (1937) Demonstrated that vira cabeça disease of tomato and tobacco was caused by Orthotospovirus
Uma anomalia das folhas do mamoeiro. O Biológico 7(10):285-6, 1941 Duas novas moléstias de vírus do feijoeiro (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). O Biológico 7:177-82, 1941 With A.R. Lima & R. Forster. Necrose branca, uma moléstia de virus do fumo (Nicotiana tabacum L.) e “fumo couve” como sintoma tardio. J. Agron. S. Paulo 3:1-26, 1940 With R. Forster. Nota preliminar sobre uma nova moléstia de vírus do algodoeiro. Mosaico das nervuras. Rev. Agric. 13:187-91, 1938 Found Pernambuco witches broom (1977) With E.W. Kitajima observed Santa Barbara do Rio Pardo witches broom of cassava (1969) With V.R. Caetano & E.W. Kitajima. Espiga branca do trigo, uma possível moléstia de vírus. Bragantia 20:61-4, 1970 With H.P. Krug. Eine durch Ceratostomella hervorgerufene Welkekrankheit der Crotalaria juncae in Brasilien. Phytopath. Zeitschr. 8:507-13, 1935 With H.P. Krug. Conditioning of the plant by one virus necessary for systemic evasion of another. Phytopath. Zeitschr. 65:219 -30, 1969
HONORS Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1957) Award of
Merit, American Phytopathological Society (1972) LINKS http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO.1999.89.2.112 |
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