Rafael Andrés Toro, Puerto Rican mycologist and plant pathologist (San Germán 29 November 1897 – 1981)

DESCRIBED FUNGI TAXA

Valid Genera 

Placoasterina 1930

Punctillina 1934

Kerniomyces 1939

Mirandia 1934

Ticomyces 1952

Species

95

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY (Plant pathology)

A study of the tropical American “black mildews”. Thesis, George Washington University (1951)

Nueva sombra para los cafetales. Rev. Agric. Puerto Rico 32(4):489-92, 1940

Plant disease notes from the Central Andes. II. Phytopathology 19:969-74, 1929

Algunos insectos de la papa em Cundinamarca. Rev. Ind. 6(62):39-40, 1929

Un nuevo parasito del café en Cundinamarca. Rev. Cafet. Colombia 2(13):437-8, 1929

Una epifitotia del café en Cúcuta. Rev. Cafet. Colombia 2(5-6):171-3, 1929

La roya del frisol. Educ. Publ. Antioqueña 71-2:399-401, 1928

With C.E. Chardón. Plant disease notes from the Central Andes. Phytopathology 17(3):147-53, 1927

The influence of the environment in the protection of plants against disease. Porto Rico Insul. Exp. Sta. Circ. 90:10, 1925

Una enfermedad importante de las cebollas en Puerto Rico (1923)

HONORS

Toroa Sydow 1926 (Fungi)