José MarÃa Melero Vara
professor
crop protection
Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible
Spain
Biography
Direction of nine doctoral theses. Participation as Professor in Master Programs taught at the Universities of Cordoba and Seville. Member in numerous Tribunals of Doctoral Theses and Works End of Master.
Research Interest
Study of the diseases of oleaginous crops Determination of the breeds of Plasmopara halstedii affecting sunflower in Spain. Genetic and pathogenic characterization of the isolates that affect the crop in Spain. 2. Studies on the etiology of diseases of horticultural crops. Determination of Pythium species affecting cucurbit and bean. Pathogenicity studies of Fusarium solani and Fusarium proliferatum in asparagus and strawberry. 3. Control of diseases caused by soil fungi Integrated control of the rot of rhizomes and roots of asparagus. Integrated control of vascular carnation Fusarium .
Publications
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Melero-Vara, JMAM Prados-Ligero, MD Vela, CJ López-Herrera, JA, Navas and M. J Basallote-Ureba. 2011. Effects of soil amendment with poultry manure on carnation Fusarium wilt in greenhouses in southwest Spain. Crop Protection 30: 970-976.
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Arthur WAM de Cock, C. André Lévesque, José M. Melero-Vara, Yolanda Serrano, M. Luisa Guirado, Julio Gómez. 2008. Pythium solare sp. nov., a new pathogen of green beans in Spain. Mycological Research 112: 1115-1121.
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Bejarano-Alcázar, J., JM Melero-Vara, MA Blanco-López, and RM Jiménez-DÃaz. 1999. Influence of inoculum density of defoliating and non-defoliating pathotypes of Verticillium dahliae on epidemics of Verticillium wilt of cotton in southern Spain. Phytopathology 95: 1474-1481.
