Rossi is the fourth minister to step down
Mr Rossi said he had spent a month battling what he called "false accusations", and had had enough.
He is a member of the Democratic Movement Party of Brazil (PMDB), the president's largest ally in Congress.
"Over the last 30 days, I have faced a daily barrage of false
accusations without any proof," Mr Rossi wrote in a letter cited by
Agencia Brasil.
He had been accused of accepting bribes and free air travel from agricultural companies, local media report.
Relations between the president and the PMDB have worsened,
with the party leader in the lower house of Congress, Henrique Eduardo
Alves, speaking of "protests ... until Congress gets the respect we
want".
Defence Minister Nelson Jobim, Transport Minister Alfredo
Nascimento and President Rousseff's chief of staff, Antonio Palocci,
have all resigned since she took office.
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