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Deslandes brothers

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)