Luis Aureo Alvarez Garcia, Paraguayan-born Puerto Rican plant pathologist (1903 – ?)

Described Phyllosticta swietenia

A mahogany seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Caribbean Forester 1;23-4, 1939

First report of Phyllachora balansae on Cedrela sp.

A cedar seedling blight in Puerto Rico. Carib. Forester 1(2):26, 1940

Described Acrotheca basellae that causes Acrothecium leaf spot

Acrothecium leaf of Basella rubra L. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 27:159-60, 1943

Fusarium bulbigenum v. coffeae today Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. coffeae as a new variety causing a coffee fusarium wilt

Studies on coffee root disease in Puerto Rico. I. A Coffee fusarium wilt. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 29(1):1-29, 1945

Described Pleospora tetrasepta 1945

Described a foot-root gummosis with distinctly different symptoms from the long-known disease

Glomerella gummosis of Citrus species in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 47(1):38-40, 1963

A new species of Leptosphaeria causing leaf blight of common garden asparagus in Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Puerto Rico 47(1), 1963 (Leptosphaeria portoricensis)

Reported Physalospora rhodina as responsible for dieback of mangos in Puerto Rico

With L. López Garcia. Gummosis, dieback and fruit rot disease of mango (Mangifera indica L.) caused by Physalospora rhodina (B & C) Cke. In Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. Res. 55:435-50, 1971