Germano Luiz Maria Vert, French-born Brazilian plant pathologist (Toulouse, France 1856 – Piracicaba, São Paulo State 04 March 1908)

Authored influential work Le pollen, origine et transformation. Comp. Rend. hebd. Sean. Acad. Sci. 143 (24):977-9, 1906 

Authored the first report of Eutinobothrus brasiliensis as cotton plant plague in Bol. Agric. S. Paulo (1905) 

Obtained Moura Brasil bean variety (1899)

Discovered the fungal species Erysiphe dolichorum as causative of a disease of vegetable legumes

PATENTS

Bond aereo bicyclonº1576 (1893)

With Charles Maine. Sistema de via férrea econômica com rampas fortes dispensando os aterros e obras de arte (1891)

With Charles Maine. Sistema de vias econômicas para transporte das colheitas e dos materiais em geral, podendo também aplicar-se ao transporte de passageiros (1891)