Within 3yrs none of the plants we grow will still be produced?

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Thats a pretty good read. I think its a bit too rosey on the power of marker assisted selection in Cannabis at the moment. To say we won’t grow any current varieties in a few years is totally unrealistic. The germplasm is too undefined. Even if you can develop markers for traits based on already characterized, homologous genes from other crop species, you need to know what germplasm is available with the desired allele variant, and it needs to be already embedded in, or easily transferable to, agriculturally appropriate germplasm. Unless we can just create an entire genome de novo or CRISPR unreasonably large stretches of it, there is still a long time before Cannabis ag will be dominated by varieties from the biotechies.

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