July 15th @ 11:00AM MT
Ten years of Cannabis micropropagation: What has changed and what are the best uses
Dr. A.M.P. (Max) Jones is a professor and leading researcher in cannabis biotechnology at the University of Guelph, Canada. For the last decade his research has focused on plant tissue culture and micropropagation systems for cannabis and in 2018 his lab received one of the first Health Canada Research Licenses to cultivate cannabis on a university campus. His research group has been at the forefront of cannabis biotechnology including work on general micropropagation, micropropagation of day-neutral cannabis, basal media optimization, cryopreservation for long-term genetic storage, polyploid breeding, and applying machine learning to study and optimized in vitro systems. An active contributor to the field, his extensive work is widely published and adopted by industry, reflecting a robust academic foundation dedicated to modernizing micropropagation for the cannabis sector.