Ary Apparecido Salibe, Brazilian plant pathologist and horticulturist (Limeira, São Paulo State 01 September 1934 – Limeira, São Paulo State 19 November 2013)

Authored over 400 works

Regarded as world authority on citrus diseases

Described leaf curling of citrus or crespeira

Leaf curl a transmissible virus disease of citrus. Plant Disease Reporter 43:1081-3, 1959

Crespeira: uma nova doença de virus dos citros. Cien. Cult. 19:302, 1967  

Proposed double graft for identifying infection by exocortis and xiloporosis virus

Contribuição ao estudo da doença exocorte dos citros. Doctoral thesis (1961)

A quick field test for xiloporosis virus (1963)

HONORS

Invited Professor of Citriculture, Florida University (1973)

President, International Organization of Citrus Virologists (1980-3)