Below has been taken from the attached article. Richard Rose attached a bill BY HEMP FARMERS FOR HEMP FARMERS and it is important that as hemp farmers we come together, protect and advance our breeding programs to advance industrial hemp agriculture. **************************************************** Research? ‘There Just Isn’t Enough Of It’ Right now the breeding of marijuana and hemp varieties is sometimes scattershot and sloppy. Kane’s genetic map of cannabis would allow plant breeders to be more precise, opening up the possibilities to develop varieties of hemp with useful traits. Unlike other major commodity crops there’s no published genetic map for the plant. A Massachusetts company and Canadian research team sequenced the genome of cannabis sativa in 2011. The project in Boulder would build off that finding. “I’m not convinced that we know how many species of cannabis there are,” Kane said. “Right now they’re all lumped into one species based on what [Swedish botanist Carl] Linnaeus did in the 18th century. But that clearly is old work.” Because hemp has been illegal while the field of plant genetics has gone through a period of intense technological advancement, the list of unanswered questions is long. Those questions need to be answered before drug companies, product manufacturers and farmers can get a handle on hemp’s benefits. “What formal research is there has been good,” Kane said. “But there just isn’t enough of it. Because there aren’t that many people who’ve been able to get funding or permission to do this anywhere really.” netnebraska.org/article/news/955819/vague-laws-can-stand-way-unlocking-hemps-benefits
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:32:15 +0000
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