Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Tissue Culture: Present Status and Future Potential.

ABSTRACT: In recent years high-THC (psychoactive) and low-THC (industrial hemp) type cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) have gained immense attention in medical, food, and a plethora of other consumer product markets. Among the planting materials used for cultivation, tissue culture clones provide various advantages such as economies of scale, production of disease-free and true-to-type plants for reducing the risk of GMP-EuGMP level medical cannabis production, as well as the development and application of various technologies for genetic improvement. Various tissue culture methods have the potential application with cannabis for research, breeding, and novel trait development, as well as commercial mass propagation. Although tissue culture techniques for plant regeneration and micropropagation h

SUBMITTER: Adhikary D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7968383 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature