Cannabis sativa L. - Botany and Biotechnology

B190/B200proved to be only partially able to correctly identify the chemotype of individuals belonging to other pedigrees. The a ...

characterizes drug accessions upon sequencing the THCAS gene in thirteen dif- ferent strains ofC. sativawith different THCA cont ...

Indeed, many observations have accumulated, which are supportive of a struc- tural multiple-loci model coupled with a single-gen ...

Sequencing of actual transcribed sequences of THCAS and CBDAS from RNA obtained from fully flowering Cannabis inflorescences, pa ...

It is evident that the average distance between the THCAS sequences is much lower (i.e. they are more similar) compared to CBDAS ...

15.5 Conclusions The development of reliable molecular markers that are useful to breeding or forensic applications needs to be ...

de Meijer EPM (2014) The chemical phenotypes (chemotypes) ofCannabis. In: Pertwee RG (editor). Handbook of Cannabis. Handbooks i ...

Kojoma M, Iida O, Makino Y, Sekita S, Satake M (2002) DNAfingerprinting ofCannabis sativa using inter-simple sequence repeat (IS ...

Pacifico D, Miselli F, Micheler M, Carboni A, Ranalli P, Mandolino G (2006) Genetics and marker-assisted selection of the chemot ...

Techen N, Chandra S, Lata H, Elsohly MA, Khan IA (2010) Genetic identification of female Cannabis sativaplants at early developm ...

Chapter 16 The Role ofAgrobacterium-Mediated and Other Gene-Transfer Technologies in Cannabis Research and Product Development M ...

16.1 Introduction Cultivated forms ofCannabis sativa, which include marijuana and hemp, represent multi-purpose crops that are v ...

(retting and decortication) used to separate thefibres from the core (Shahzad 2012 ; Lebrun et al. 2013 ; Salentijn et al. 2015 ...

16.2.1 Agrobacterium-Mediated Stable Transformation Scientists have exploited the ability ofA. tumefaciensto transform plant cel ...

plant tissue culture or specialized regeneration protocols or equipment. Therefore, results can be obtained in a much shorter ti ...

16.3.1 Plant Regeneration A major drawback to progress in genetically transforming Cannabis has been the difficulty in regenerat ...

almost exclusively synthesized byC. sativa(Gertsch et al. 2010 ) and are valued as promising therapeutics to treat several medic ...

forms (THC and CBD) upon heating or storage (Sirikantaramas et al. 2004 ). There also exists many lower abundant and lesser-know ...

catalysed by the enzyme tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase (THCAS) (Fig.16.1). THCA was shown to accumulate in the secretory c ...

cytosol. These results, along with others, provide support for the role of CsAAE1 as the hexanoyl-CoA synthetase that supplies h ...