Juan Bautista Marchionatto Sticco, Argentine plant pathologist and mycologist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1896 – Buenos Aires 02 January 1955)

Authored 130 works

Developed practical and effective methods to control agricultural pests

Headed Instituto de Investigação sobre la langosta (Institute of Research about Grasshopper), one of world’s most relevant in this field

Fitoparasitos de la Argentina nuevos o poco conocidos II. Physis 9(32):145, 1928

La inmunidad en los vegetales. Rev. Agr. 149:3-34, 1934

Hongos parasitos de las plantas, nuevos o poco conocidos en la Argentina. Publ. Misc. Minist. Agric. B. Aires Ser A 3(37):11, 1947

ACHIEVEMENTS

Determined Spondylodadium atrovirens as agent of silver scurf of potato tubers (1934)

Proposed Brevipalpus phoenicis as vector of Citrus leprosies rhabdovirus (1938)

Proposed regulation and evasion principle for control of plant diseases (1949)

Una fitonosia nueva: le koleroga del café? Rev. Soc. Arg. Cienc. Natur. Bs Aires 8:554-7, 1928

First to study the effectiveness of dry treatments for wheat bunt

Investigaciones sobre el tratamiento seco en la lucha contra la “carie” del trigo. Rev. Fac. Agron. 16:88-92, 1925

Determined the procedure for flyspeck control of  Cara Sucia apple variety

Tratamiento eficaz para combater la fumagina de la manzana Cara Sucia. Circ. Secc. Prop. Inform. Min. Agric. Nac. 468:1-7, 1925 

Described a new disease

Wilting of the terminal bud in potato . Intern. B. Plant Protect. 15:161-2, 1941

Presented a new sanitary technique for fruits

Nueva tecnica sanitaria en la exportación de frutas argentinas

DESCRIBED NEW VALID FUNGI

Cordyceps ignota 1946

Cyttaria hookeri f. candida 1940

Pseudocercospora escalloniae 1946

Rhinotrichum griseo-roseum 1941

Septobasidium caveniae 1941

Sporotrichum paranaense 1933