Jose Aires Ventura
Gerência de Pesquisa e Inovação · Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural - Incaper
Research Interests
Research Plant Pathologist
Biography
His career was devoted principally to diseases of tropical fruit crops. In the last 40 years his research has focused primarily on epidemiology, resistance, host–pathogen interaction, and diseases management on papaya, pineapple and bananas. He was Technical Director from 1995 to 1999 and Head of Research at Incaper from 2000 to 2016. He was honored by SBF in 1995 with the plant pathology award, and in 2006 with the Embrapa Frederico de Meneses Veiga national award for his relevant research with diseases on tropical fruits. Also he was granted the research productivity award from the National Council for Scientific Technological Research (PQ). Dr. Ventura is a member of the Brazilian Phytopathological Society and The American Phytopatological Society (APS).
Education
He received his M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in Plant Pathology from the Department of Plant Pathology at Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil. Senior research plant pathologist at Capixaba Institute of Research, Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (Incaper), and Professor of plant biotechnology in the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes) at the Agribusiness Biotechnology Nucleus and Plant Biology, Brazil.
Recent Scopus Publications
- Advancing pineapple (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) cultivar identification and genetic diversity assessment by high resolution melting analysis and SSR markers
- The regulatory frameworks surrounding CRISPR-edited papaya and their impact on international commerce
- Control of Colletotrichum plurivorum on Papaya Using a Nanoemulsion of Schinus terebinthifolia (Pink Pepper) Essential Oil
- Studies on the Differentiation of Transient Chlorophyll a Fluorescence Signals in Papaya Plants Showing Symptoms and Without Symptoms in the Presence of PRSV-P and PMeV Viruses
- Leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) associated with papaya and the first record of Empoasca prona Davidson and DeLong infesting the plant1
Links
- ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1422-1739
- Scopus https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7102389059