On this episode, we talked with tissue culture expert, Mark Jordan. Mark is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Minibis headquartered in Longmont, CO, where he started a tissue culture lab dedicated to Cannabis research and development. His previous positions include work at Colorado Seed Incorporated, Eurofins Biodiagnostics, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. While at the Denver Botanic Gardens Mark worked as the Research Horticulturist, running the protocol creation tissue cultural lab, as well as a breeding program for Scutellaria and Dracocephalum. This experience allowed him to understand the potential for the application of tissue culture for the Cannabis industry and set him on the path he is now. 

As you might expect, Mark and I spent a lot of time talking about the tissue culture process. Mark was kind enough to walk me through the basics of process including the four stages of plant tissue culture.  We also got into: 

How tissue culture propagation differs from clonal propagation How tissue culture can be used to remediate plants infected with pathogens or viruses Germinating seeds in tissue culture Dark rooting in tissue culture and more 

Even if you’ve never grown a cannabis plant before, I think you will find this conversation interesting. I know I did. 

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Additional Resources:

CannMed Community Facebook GroupCannabis Tissue Culture and Germplasm Storage - CannMed 2019 Presentation