Self-pollinated cannabis seeds lead to less variation in shape: a technological approach of potential commercial interest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The breeding process enables plants to inherit desirable traits, such as yield, flowering time, pest resistance, and cannabinoid and/or terpene content. As a result of these intensive genetic improvement practices, where genetically similar individuals or those from the same lineage are crossed, the expression of unfavorable recessive alleles may occur due to homozygosity. This can lead to less productive plants, increased susceptibility to diseases, and reduced quality. Despite the potential negative effects associated with inbreeding, self-pollination (a form of inbreeding) is a necessary cultivation technique used to obtain seeds that produce phenotypically female plants (feminized seeds) for commercialization and/or to fix desirable traits, albeit at the cost of redu

SUBMITTER: Torne FF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12831295 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature