Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a special series “What the Cannabis Industry Can Learn From The Hop Market” by Robert C. Clarke and Mojave Richmond. Read Part I of this special series here. Read Part III here.
Plant improvement programs aimed at breeding new cultivars better adapted to climate changes, differing cultivation strategies, and fluctuating market trends are vital to the success of modern agriculture.
Commercial hop and sinsemilla crops are made up of asexually reproduced female plants. Commercial cultivars are multiplied by either dividing rhizomes (hop) or rooting vegetative cuttings (sinsemilla and hop) and form genetically identical clonal crops made up of plants exhibiting little, if any, variability. The predictability provided by genetic uniformity proves highly advantageous to commercial production.
