Mário Guimarães Ferri, Brazilian botanist (São José dos Campos, São Paulo State 07 July 1918 –São Paulo 15 June 1985)
Expert on plant hormones and ecology
Developed a biological test for detecting auxins in plants
With Lúcia V. de Camargo. Influence of growth substances on the pulvini of the primary leaves of bean plants. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 22, 1950
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Preliminary observations on the translocation of synthetic growth substances. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 14, 1945
With S.G. Wildman & J. Bonner. The enzymatic conversion of tryptophan to auxin by spinach leaves. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 13:131, 1947
With A. Lex. Stomatal behavior as influenced by treatment of β-naphthoxyacetic acid. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 15:283-90, 1948
With M. Rachid. Further information on the stomatal behavior as influenced by treatment with hormone-like substances. Anais Acad. Bras. Ciencias 21:155-66, 1949
Photoinactivation of the plant hormone indol acetic acid by fluorescent substances. Nature 4269, 1951
With L. Labouriau. Water balance from the “caatinga”. I. Transpiration of some of the most frequent species of the “caatinga” of Paulo Afonso (Bahia) in the rainy season. Rev. Bras. Biol. 12:301-12, 1952
Water balance of the “caatinga”, a semi-arid type of vegetation of northern Brazil. In: 8ieme Congrès Internat. Bot. Paris. Rapports et communications. Parvenus avant le congrès, sect. 7, Paris 221-3, 1954
On the moprphology of the stomata of Eucalyptus terticornis, Ouratea spectabilis and Cedrela fissilis. Bol. Fac. Cien. Letras USP 173 Bot. 11, 1954
Photoactive movement of the stomata of sugarcane. Revta. Bras. Biol. 17, 1957
Aspects of the soil-water plant relationships in connection with some Brazilian types of vegetation. In: Proc. Abidjan UNESCO and the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa south of the Sahara. Symposium UNESCO: Tropical Soils and Vegetation 103-9, 1959
With B.L. Morretes. Contribuição ao estudo da anatomia das folhas de plantas do Cerrado. I. Bol. Fac. Fil. Cien. Letras Univ. S. Paulo 16:7-70, 1959
Contributions to the knowledge of the ecology of the “Rio Negro Caatinga” (Amazon). Bull. Res. Council Israel Sect. D 8:195-207, 1960
Problems of water relations of some Brazilian vegetation types, with special consideration of the concepts of xeromorphy and xerophytism. Plant water relationships in arid and semi-arid conditions. Proc. Madrid Symposium Arid zone Research 16:191-7, Unesco, Paris, 1961
With B.L. Morretes. Contribuição ao conhecimento da anatomia de folhas de plantas de uma caatinga do Rio Negro (Amazonas). Revta. Biol. Lisboa 78(1-4): 97-122, 1972
His brother, Rubens Guimarães Ferri, immunochemist (São Paulo 25 October 1922 – São Paulo 02 August 1979)
DEVELOPED METHODS / OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
With H.C. Ferreira & L.G. Murat. Rapid test for fibrinolysis in vivo. Transfusion 4:21-5, 1964
With W. Cossermelli. Analyse immuno-eletrophoretique. Micro et macrométhodes, Rev. Franc. Etud. Clin. Biol. 9:134, 1964
With W. Cossermelli, S.D. Giannini & T. Tutiya. Tests for evaluation of activity in rheumatoid arthritis. Rev. Paul. Med. 49(5):353-8, 1956
With L.V. Decourt, M. Papaleo Neto, S.D. Giannini, G. Spilborghs & T. Tutiya. Serological tests in diagnosis of rheumatic activity. I. Determination of mucoprotein. Arq. Bras. Cardiol. 8(4):361-78, 1955
With L.V. Decourt, T.J.B. Cardoso & T. Tutiya. Isolamento e eletroforese da mucoproteína do soro humano. Rev. Hosp. Clin. 10:389-94, 1955
Isolamento e caracterização da iso-hemaglutinina. Frações proteicas do plasma humano. Métodos de estudo. O Hospital (1955)
Papers in Science
With R. Guidolin. Fluorescence and photo-inactivation of snake poisons. Science 113:300-2, 1951
With A.W. Galston & R. Guidolin. Photoinactivation of indolacetic acid. Science 114 (2969): 555, 1951
Other papers
Estudo imunoquimico de antígenos intracelulares. O Hospital 59:917-24, 1961
With O. Bier. Gel-precipitação e imuno-electroforese. Anais Microbiol. (1961)