Plant tissue culture is the use of a plant cellular characteristic, called totipotency, where a plant cell can be grown to a complete plant using natural plant hormones. This is commonly used in the plant industry to rapidly multiply plantlets under sterile conditions thus resulting in a disease-free and pathogen-free
plant. This process for medical cannabis has not been thoroughly defined. Though we have been multiplying cannabis plants in vitro, we believe that the process can be further optimized using different plant hormonal cocktails and using plant organs other than nodal cutting. For example, regeneration of plants from callus tissue can produce much higher number of genetically identical plantlets. The current sterile plantlets we are developing are not only genetically identical, they are free of stress and epigenetics variations caused by disease or pathogens, and consume less space to maintain mother plant. In addition, tissue culture derived plants require less time to multiple
and thus reduces the time required to scale-up any propagation of selected medical cannabis strains. By maintaining and safe-guarding in tissue culture the favorite cultivars of our patients we can guarantee consistent availability of the product to the patient. The uniformity achieved through micropropagated plants will lead to the production of consistent medical-grade cannabis plants with a dependable therapeutic
chemistry profile that is
unaltered generation to
generation.
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