Benedito de Oliveira Paiva, Brazilian agronomist (Pirapetinga, Minas Gerais State 12 November 1889 – Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul State 26 March 1974)

Performed studies about plant tolerance to toxic aluminium of soils

Proposed a scale to characterizing the wheat sensibility to acidity of soils

Seleção e adubo (1944). This work was translated into English as Selection and Fertilization in the annals of congress Plant Adaptation to Mineral Stress in Problem Soils occurred in Beltsville, Maryland, United States (1976)

DEVELOPED VARIETIES & CULTIVARS

Wheat

Colonias

Trintanni

Trapeano

Trintecinco

Patriarca

Novosurto

Riosulino

Farrapo

Combate

Nordeste

Planalto

Alegrete

Seberi

Toropi

Others

Quarentão (maize)

Moravia 2 (oat)

LINKS

Www.cnpt.embrapa.br/pesquisa/agromet/pdf/trigo_rumo/trigo_no_brasil.pdf