Jacob Jeswiet

Jacob Jeswiet (December 28, 1879 – July 23, 1960) was a Dutch botanist who worked in the sugar experimental station in Pasoeroean in Java and then returned to the Netherlands in 1925 to become a professor at the Wageningen Agricultural College.

[1] He worked from 1912 to 1923 at the Pasoeroean experimental station in Java where he was involved in producing sugarcane hybrids for resistance to diseases.

He was involved in the production of POJ 2878 which was disease resistant and high-yielding which came to be known as the Javan wondercane.

[2] He also collected botanical specimens including wild sugarcane relatives from the Papua New Guinea region in 1928.

He was dishonorably dismissed in 1946 for his collaboration with Germans and being a member of the National Socialist Movement (NSB).