Ary Apparecido Salibe, Brazilian plant pathologist and horticulturist (Limeira, São Paulo State 01 September 1934 – Limeira, São Paulo State 19 November 2013)
Authored over 400 works
Regarded as world authority on citrus diseases
Described leaf curling of citrus or crespeira
Leaf curl a transmissible virus disease of citrus. Plant Disease Reporter 43:1081-3, 1959
Crespeira: uma nova doença de virus dos citros. Cien. Cult. 19:302, 1967
Proposed double graft for identifying infection by exocortis and xiloporosis virus
Contribuição ao estudo da doença exocorte dos citros. Doctoral thesis (1961)
A quick field test for xiloporosis virus (1963)
HONORS
Invited Professor of Citriculture, Florida University (1973)
President, International Organization of Citrus Virologists (1980-3)