Biography

Consuelo Bazán de Segura, Peruvian plant pathologist (1914 – 2001?)

Born Consuelo Bazán Pizarro

Una nueva enfermedad del haba (Vicia faba L.) en el Peru. Agronomia 10(42):49-52, 1945 (Phoma sp.)

Carica papaya, another possible host of Phytophthora cinnammomi. Plant Dis. Reporte 35(5):335, 1951

With A. Quevedo first report about potato smut on Solanum stoloniferum (1955)

Stated that the causal organism of Verticillium wilt of potato in Peru was Verticillium albo-atrum (1958)

Reported a wilt of chile pepper caused by Phytophthora citrophthora (1958)

Corticium salmonicolor and Pellicularia koleroga on various species of Eucalyptus in Turrialba, Costa Rica. Turrialba 20(2):254-5, 1970 (first report of pink disease on Eucalyptus)

Attack of Phytophthora blight of macadamia by Phytophthora palmivora. Turrialba 20:375-6, 1970 (first report of Phytophthora blight of macadamia by P. palmivora)