Introduction To Tissue Culture - Meristematic

Tissue culture and micropropagation are rapidly becoming essential technologies for cannabis cultivation. Tissue culture is being used to address important challenges to efficient propagation by allowing long-term storage of valuable varieties, eliminating pests and disease, and rejuvenating mother stock.

Micropropagation offers the potential for producing clones much more efficiently than traditional propagation using cuttings from mother plants. This recent review by Adrian Monthony and colleagues from the University of Guelph summarizes the scientific literature involving cannabis tissue culture and suggests areas where further research is needed. Although current efficiencies of cannabis tissue culture are suitable for many important applications, the review makes it clear that continuous refinement and optimization will be critical to ensure that the technology’s benefits are fully realized. Meristematic has developed proprietary processes for using tissue culture to eradicate pests and disease and has helped growers salvage mother plants from infection by hop latent viroid. Meristematic can help your company by providing tissue culture services at our laboratory or enable implementation at your location via personalized consultation.