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By James McManagan Queensland Country Life It might not be happening quickly but the cogs ending Australia’s cannabis prohibition are turning – according to one of the country’s largest suppliers of industrial hemp genetics, Hemp Farms Australia. Lauchlan Grout and Harrisson Lee founded the company in 2013 and believe industrial hemp and cannabis is no […]
Understanding a plant genome in all it’s totality, the composition, structure and evolution is fundamental to the development of any crop. We dive into the complex genetic structure of both medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp, whilst understanding the evolutionary and domestication history of Cannabis as this remains poorly understood. Simply put, Genomics is the study […]
The earliest recording of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) was in central Asia, from there it is assumed it spread to the East and the West where it was used by the Chinese, Greeks and Romans. In Europe, hemp was cultivated widely until the First World War as a fibre crop (Bòcsa and Karus 1997). Soon […]
Cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.) is the genus name for plants that include numerous species, but can be separated broadly into two classes of plants: industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis. Despite clear differences in desirable traits, hemp and medicinal cannabis appear to readily interbreed making it difficult to legally seperate the two species. Current discrepancies among […]