Jose Aires Ventura

@incaper.es.gov.br

Gerência de Pesquisa e Inovação
Instituto Capixaba de Pesquisa, Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural - Incaper

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.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Plant Science
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