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Harvested cannabis is
stored at Illicit Gardens
in River Bend, Missouri.
Photo by Morgan Miller
W
ithout the cannabis plant,
there is no marijuana
industry.
A lot of time and ink are devoted to
growing good plants, but not nearly
as much attention is paid to what
happens when cannabis is a seed, a
cutting from a mother plant or cells in
a petri dish.
Advanced scientific techniques
have been used for decades in other
agricultural industries-and they've
recently begun to make inroads into
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cannabis. This includes rigorous data
collection, research and development,
gene editing and tissue culture.
For example, an increasing number
of marijuana-cultivation companies
use tissue culture to help preserve
plant genetics in a cost- and spaceefficient
manner. And at Southern
Illinois University, Fulbright scholar
Oussame Badad is using gene editing
to create disease-resistant plants.
" We have this whole toolbox
that's been developed for all these
other things, and it's just a matter
of knowing how to use these tools
and picking them up and applying
them, " said Matthew Indest, technical
director of agronomy and plant
development at Massachusettsbased
marijuana multistate operator
Curaleaf Holdings.
The sooner these tools become more
widely adopted by the industry, the
better cannabis businesses will be able
to serve their customers.
- Omar Sacirbey

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