Edgardo Raul Montaldi, Argentine plant physiologist (La Plata 03 December 1926 – La Plata 27 December 2000)

ACHIEVEMENTS

Studied the role that plays the sucrose in plant morphogenesis

Performed remarkable discoveries about the action of light and sucrose on the tropisms of Cynodon dactylon and Cyperus rotundus

With J.D. Garcia. Un método indirecto en el analisis del crecimiento de álamo. Rev. Fac. Agron. (1984)

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With J. Beltrano & M.G. Ronco. Drought stress syndrome in wheat is provoked by ethylene evolution imbalance and reversed by rewatering aminoethoxyvinylglycine or sodium benzoate. J. Plant Growth Regul. 18:59-64, 1999

With J. Beltrano, M.G. Ronco & R. Barreiro. Plant architecture of Paspalum vaginatum Schwartz modified by nitrate and ammonium nutrition. Pesq. Agropec. Brasil. 34(7):1159-66, 1999

With J. Beltrano, M.G. Ronco & A. Carbone. Senescence of flag leaves and ears of wheat hastened by methyl jasmonate. J. Plant Growth Regul. 17:53-7, 1998

With J. Beltrano, A. Carbone & J.J. Guiamet. Ethylene as promoter of wheat grain maturation and ear senescence. Plant Growth Regul 15(2):107-12, 1994

With V.M. Luquez & J.J. Guiamet. Net photosynthetic and transpiration rates in a chlorophyll deficient isoline of soybean under well watered and drought conditions. Photosynthetica 1 (1993)

With J..Beltrano, J.J. Guiamet & R. Barreiro. Regulation of the photosynthetic capacity of primary bean leaves by the red:far red ratio and photosynthetic photon flux density of incident light. Physiol. Plant 5:97101, 1992  

With J.J. Guiamet & J.G. Willemoes. Modulation of progressive leaf senescence by the red far-red ratio of incident light. Bot. Gaz. 150:148-51, 1989  

With J. Beltrano. Diagravitropic growth promoted by high sucrose contents in Paspalum vaginatum and its reversion by gibberellic acid (1988)

Withn J. Beltrano. Stolon differentiation in Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. mediated by phytochrome. Environ. Experim. Botany 27:15-20, 1987

With P.A. Balatti. Effects of red and far red lights on modulation and nitrogen fixation in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.). Plant Soil 92:427-30, 1986

With A.I. Betria. Tuber production by purple nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus L.) in darkness. Weed Res. 15:73-6, 1975

With A.I. Betria. Light effects on bulb differentiation and leaf growth in Cyperus rotundus L. Phyton 32:1-8, 1974

Kinetin induction of bud differentiation on roots of entire plants. Z. Pflanzenphysiol. 67:43-4, 1972

Cynodon dactylon: possible causa de su diageotropismo. Rev. Invest. Agropec. Ser2 Biol. Prod. Veg. 7(2):67-87, 1970

Gibberellin-sugar interaction regulating the growth habit of Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon L.) Pers. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 25:91-2, 1969

Modificación del crecimiento diageotropico de los estolones de Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. par medio del acido giberélico. Rev. Invest. Agropec. Ser2 4:55-68, 1967

With M.C. Marcavillaca. Different forms of leaves produced by experimentally induced buds in detached leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and Passiflora caerulea. Rev. Inst. Agropec. Ser2 Biol. Prod. Veg (1967) 

La forma de las hojas y la edad fisiológica de las plantas (1965)

With M.C. Marcavillaca. Cultivo in vitro de tejidos de eucaliptos. IDIA 12:62-4, 1964

With H. Caso & I.J. Lewin. Algunos factores que afectan la morfologia de las hojas em uma planta de desarrollo heteroblastico. Rev. Invest. Agropec. 17(3):321-40, 1963

With M.C. Marcavillaca. Rooting of Eucalyptus rostrala (1963)

With M.C. Marcavillaca. Enraizamiento de Eucalyptus camaldulensis (1963)

With F.K. Claver. Tuberization of the potato plant under non-inducing conditions. Eur. Potato J. 6:223-6, 1963

With R. Tizio. Influencia de las temperaturas de almacenaje sobre la capacidad productive de la variedad de papa Huinkul. Rev. Fac. Agron. La Plata 29:133-48, 1953

With D.O. Caldiz, M. Panelo & F.K. Claver. The effect of two planting dates on the physiological age and yielding potential of seed potatoes grown in a warm-temperature climate in Argentina. Potato Research 28:425-34,

With P.A. Balatti. Nitrogen assimilation and leaf development in indeterminate soybeans as influenced by post-flowering photoperiod. J. Exp. Biol. 37:161,