Josué Augusto Deslandes, Brazilian plant pathologist (Belo Horizonte 08 August 1902 – Belo Horizonte February 1987?)

Described many pathogens of plant bacterial diseases

Described a new disease, chlorotic leaf spot

First description of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ricini

With S.C. Arruda. A murcha da mamoneira do Nordeste. O Biológico 6:144-8, 1940

First to report target leaf spot in Hevea spp.

Observações fitopatologicas na Amazônia. Bol. Fitossanitário 1:197-244, 1944

Described the symptomatology of Sete Voltas disease

Doenças da cebola. Publ. 19, Div. Defesa Sanitária Vegetal (1944)

His brother, Isaías Augusto Deslandes, plant pathologist (Belo Horizonte 15 March 1905 – Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 27 February 1955)

Developed methods for controlling quince entomosporiosis (1940)