Josué Augusto Deslandes, Brazilian plant pathologist (Belo Horizonte 08 August 1902 – Belo Horizonte February 1987?)
Described many pathogens of plant bacterial diseases
Described a new disease, chlorotic leaf spot
First description of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. ricini
With S.C. Arruda. A murcha da mamoneira do Nordeste. O Biológico 6:144-8, 1940
First to report target leaf spot in Hevea spp.
Observações fitopatologicas na Amazônia. Bol. Fitossanitário 1:197-244, 1944
Described the symptomatology of Sete Voltas disease
Doenças da cebola. Publ. 19, Div. Defesa Sanitária Vegetal (1944)
His brother, Isaías Augusto Deslandes, plant pathologist (Belo Horizonte 15 March 1905 – Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State 27 February 1955)
Developed methods for controlling quince entomosporiosis (1940)