Biography
Octavio de Almeida Drummond, Brazilian plant pathologist (Rio de Janeiro 21 June 1912 – 2001)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Described Ramularia phaseoli, causative agent of bean floury leaf spot (1945)
Proposed a simple method for studying fungicides for preventive pulverization on leaves
Um método simples e eficiente para o estudo de fungicidas para pulverizações preventivas em folhas. Lilloa 21:57-9, 1949
Demonstrated that the necrosis on tip of branches of coffee plants was caused by low temperatures
Etiologia da “canela seca” do cafeeiro. Bol. Agric. Belo Horizonte 5(1-2):29-38, 1956
Described a new disease (maize ear rot by Sclerotium)
With V.M. Yaringaño. Nota previa sobre uma nova podridão da espiga do milho produzida por Sclerotium. Congresso do Milho, Rio de Janeiro, 1962.
A “folha de samambaia” do tomateiro. Ceres 3:385-90, 1942 (a virus disease of tomato)