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Top 5 -yesterday
- “Lack of standards in cannabis testing labs are leading to inaccurate results”
- Dr. Greenhouse launches Vapor Pressure Deficit calculator app for indoor cultivation and greenhouses
- US (NY): Cresco Labs granted $38 million tax break for $209 million facility
- US: New York approves another 58 cannabis cultivators
- LED lighting sustains growth in industrial hemp
Top 5 -last week
- Aurora to shut down Aurora Sky facility
- “$13 million government grant shows trust in the NZ organic medicinal cannabis industry”
- US (OK): Tornado hits medical cannabis farm, nearly all 50 greenhouses destroyed
- “Third-party testing would prevent growers’ disappointment with the quality of their lights”
- Cultivating medical cannabis in South Africa: "High standards and costly, but profitable"
Top 5 -last month
- Aurora to shut down Aurora Sky facility
- Takeaways from the Legal Cannabis Coalition's symposium
- Canadian grower shows how to grow premium cannabis at scale
- “$13 million government grant shows trust in the NZ organic medicinal cannabis industry”
- Taking the Dutch cannabis seed production process to the Canadian market
Dr. Rex researching hemp and aquaponics at the University of Arizona
"Growing hemp in aquaponics results in higher yields, better cannabinoid and terpene profile"
The lack of skilled labor can be addressed at its very root with education. No wonder many universities in the US are launching, or already have, programs to train the near-future generation of cannabis professionals. While there’s still a long way to go about that, as the demand for such an education…
BetterSeeds / www.jpost.com
Plans to use on cannabis to develop new breedsIsrael: New collaboration to validate CRISPR genome-editing tools in plants
Merck KGaA has signed through its Life Science division, MilliporeSigma, a unique collaboration and license agreement with an Israeli AgTech company to demonstrate the utility of its proprietary CRISPR genome-editing tools in agricultural uses. The agreement licenses its foundational CRISPR intellectual property…
Falk Hillmann / Leibniz-HKI
Could single-celled organisms be the key to THC?
A group at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute (Jena, Germany) are studying the production of natural products such as a THC precursor called olivetolic acid using genetically engineered amoebae. The team successfully produced a functional…
