Tissue Culture: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of TC Cloning - Cultivation Panel

Tags: tissue culture, cultivation, propagation, genetics, research, tc, media, clones

Tissue Culture: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of TC Cloning

0:00 Intro
0:37 Cannabis Tissue Culture
3:43 Overview
7:56 Tissue Culture is Key
9:45 Virus/Viroid Eradication with Tissue Culture
12:15 Meristematic vs Nodal
17:05 Challenges in Tissue Culture
17:48 How do you get started?
20:17 How to go about DNA Variance Testing?
23:58 Experience Running a Lab and Training
32:23 Supplies and Equipment
36:41 Is Tissue Culture a Replacement for Cloning or is it Preserving Mother Stock?
40:36 Best Practice Tissue Culture
42:40 Sustain Stress Factors and Turning Over Mother Plants
45:38 Where Can Insights from Automation Impact Growing Process
50:28 Software for Managing Tissue Culture

Moderator: Hope Jones, PhD
Panelists: Matthew Schneider, MS; Karl Ravet, PhD, Justin Givvens

Plant diseases in your grow? Some of your favorite strains not yielding as they used to? Can’t seem to find good clean stock material anymore? Now what? Tissue culture MAY be a solution and it is becoming foundational to the cannabis industry. This panel will focus on essential concepts behind tissue culture, virus/viroid & pathogen elimination and the importance of a good IPM regime once you have clean stock again.