Juan Bautista Marchionatto Sticco, Argentine plant pathologist and mycologist (Buenos Aires 19 August 1896 – Buenos Aires 02 January 1955)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Determined Spondylodadium atrovirens as agent of silver scurf of potato tubers (1934)
Proposed Brevipalpus phoenicis as vector of Citrus leprosies rhabdovirus (1938)
Proposed regulation and evasion principle for control of plant diseases (1949)
First to study the effectiveness of dry treatments for wheat bunt
Investigaciones sobre el tratamiento seco en la lucha contra la “carie” del trigo. Rev. Fac. Agron. 16:88-92, 1925
Determined the procedure for flyspeck control of Cara Sucia apple variety
Tratamiento eficaz para combater la fumagina de la manzana Cara Sucia. Circ. Secc. Prop. Inform. Min. Agric. Nac. 468:1-7, 1925
Described a new disease
Wilting of the terminal bud in potato . Intern. B. Plant Protect. 15:161-2, 1941
Headed Instituto de Investigação sobre la langosta (Institute of Research about Grasshopper), one of world’s most relevant in this field
Presented a new sanitary technique for fruits
Nueva tecnica sanitaria en la exportación de frutas argentinas
DESCRIBED NEW VALID FUNGI
Cordyceps ignota 1946
Pseudocercospora escalloniae 1946
Rhinotrichum griseo-roseum 1941
Septobasidium caveniae 1941
Sporotrichum paranaense 1933