Couldn’t have said it better if I tried!
It is nice we are finally getting to the point with marker assisted breeding where can choose traits, they’ve got a decent QTL map for terpene synthases i saw at the Cannabis Research Conference this past summer.
I have a feeling that a lot of the disease resistance genes got lost because of how breeding was done. The differences in stress tolerance genes between bred plants and wild plants is substantial and has universities scramble to collect feral hemp in hopes of increasing resistance/tolerance traiys