Agus Hasbiento

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Graduate Assistant

Agus comes to MSU from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) in Indonesia. He is interested in developing tropical soybean varieties tolerant to acidic soils in Indonesia. His research outcomes are targeted towards expanding the soybean growing areas in Indonesia in to Kalimantan region where soil acidity is currently limiting expansion. Through greenhouse experiments at MSU, he screened over 700 soybean germplasm accessions obtained from USDA and selected 20 lines that were field trialed in Indonesia in Summer 2017. The 20 lines will be replicated in multi location trials in summer 2018.