Current and Future Needs and Applications for Cannabis

Gray, D. J.; Baker, Halie; Clancy, Kayla; Clarke, Robert C.; deCesare, Kymron; Fike, John R.; Gibbs, Matthew; Grotenhermen, Franjo; Kane, Nolan C.; Keepers, Kyle G.; Land, Donald P.; Lynch, Ryan C.; Mendieta, J. Paul; Merlin, Mark; Müller‐Vahl, Kirsten; Pauli, Christopher S.; Pearson, Brian J.; Rhan, Bailey; Ruthenberg, Travis C.; Schwartz, Christopher; Tittes, Silas; Vergara, Daniela; White, Kristin; Trigiano, Robert N.

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“…The rapid expansion in the USA may considerably impact the global hemp market. Several recent reviews have provided detailed information on the biochemistry, breeding, ecology, genetics, morphology, pathology, physiology, and production of Cannabis [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Despite recent progress, much remains to be Glossary Anemophilous: wind-pollinated.…”

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Challenges towards Revitalizing Hemp: A Multifaceted Crop

Schluttenhofer

Yuan

2017

Trends in Plant Science

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Hemp has been an important crop throughout human history for food, fiber, and medicine. Despite significant progress made by the international research community, the basic biology of hemp plants remains insufficiently understood. Clear objectives are needed to guide future research. As a semi-domesticated plant, hemp has many desirable traits that require improvement, including eliminating seed shattering, enhancing the quantity and quality of stem fiber, and increasing the accumulation of phytocannabinoids. Methods to manipulate the sex of hemp plants will also be important for optimizing yields of seed, fiber, and cannabinoids. Currently, research into trait improvement is hindered by the lack of molecular techniques adapted to hemp. Here we review how addressing these limitations will help advance our knowledge of plant biology and enable us to fully domesticate and maximize the agronomic potential of this promising crop.

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Challenges towards Revitalizing Hemp: A Multifaceted Crop

Schluttenhofer

Yuan

2017

Trends in Plant Science

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“…Industrial hemp has poised to be a new 'cash crop' with extensive market opportunities. As the technology progresses, many innovative uses of hemp fiber and hurd have come up and these include the production of carbon nanosheets, plastics, 3D-printer filaments, oil absorbent materials, and construction concrete (Gray et al, 2016).…”

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The application of hemp (Cannabissativa L.) for a green economy: a review

Karche¹,

Singh²

2019

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The concern for the issues related to the growing needs of human civilization like resource depletion, pollution, climate changes, and health risk has led to a search for eco-friendly alternatives to environmental problems. Recently, hemp started gaining popularity for its medicinal, nontoxic, greenhouse negative, and biodegradable properties. Originating from the steppes of Central Asia, Cannabis sativa L. (hemp) is one of the oldest domesticated plants known to humans. Since 5000-4000 BC, different parts of the plant were used for spinning, weaving, papermaking, the seed for human feed, animal feeds, medicinal, and health purposes. Reports also suggest the use of hemp as an organic additive in the historic earthen plasters of Ellora Caves, India (6th Century). Due to its psychoactive and recreational properties, this environmentally friendly plant lost its importance eventually in the 19th century and its cultivation was made illegal. People, in general, changed their outlook towards the plant and considered it a sign of moral indignation. Recently, food, pharmaceutical, textile, paper, building, energy, and other industries found hemp to be a promising solution for synthetic-based economies. Since then, the cultivation of hemp has been reintroduced, legalized in some countries, and now in recent times, there has been a good reimplementation of the plant in creating a green economy. This review will highlight the application of hemp and display its outstanding qualities in minimizing environmental and health issues. Based on the knowledge gained from various scientific resources; the commercial, industrial, and agricultural potential of the plant will be unveiled to give more push towards the hemp cultivation.

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“…Since ancient times, Cannabis has been extensively utilized by humans for a variety of uses, such as textiles, paper, food, medicine, biofuel or recreational drugs. Cannabis has been an integral part of human life since the dawn of civilization and continues into the present (e.g., Clarke and Merlin 2013;Fike 2016;Gray et al 2016a;Grotenhermen and Müller-Vahl 2016). However, research on this plant significantly decreased and almost ceased in the mid-20 th century when the species and its varieties were declared illegal in most Western countries, regardless of the concentrations of psychoactive compounds (Duvall 2014;Warf 2014).…”

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When and How Did <em>Cannabis</em> Reach Europe and the Iberian Peninsula?

Rull¹

2021

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Cannabis is among the oldest human domesticates and has been subjected to intensive artificial (human-mediated) selection through history, to create a wide array of varieties and biotypes for a diversity or uses, including fiber, food, biofuel, medicine and drugs, among others. This paper briefly reviews the available literature on the taxonomy, the evolutionary origin and the domestication of this plant, as well as its worldwide dispersal, either in its wild and cultivated forms. Emphasis is placed on Europe and especially on the Iberian Peninsula, which is the main target of this study. Today it is accepted that Cannabis is a monospecific genus with two subspecies, C. sativa subsp. sativa and C. sativa subsp. indica, originated in Europe and Asia, respectively, by allopatric differentiation after geographical isolation fostered by Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles. Palynological and phylogeographical evidence situate the Cannabis ancestor in the NE Tibetan Plateau during the Oligocene (ca. 28 Ma). The timing and place of domestication is still a matter of debate between contrasting views that defend single or multiple domestication centers, situated in different parts of the Eurasian supercontinent, notably central/southeastern China and the Caucasus region. Recent meta-analyses suggest that wild Cannabis may have been spread across Europe already in the Pleistocene (ca. 1 Ma), and its domestication could have been occurred during the European Copper/Bronze ages (7-5 kyr BP). According to the available reviews and meta-analyses, pre-anthropic dispersal of Cannabis into the Iberian Peninsula seems to have been occurred only in post-glacial times (18.5-15 kyr BP) and the earlier signs of cultivation date to the Early Medieval Ages (ca. 600 CE). However, the palynological and archaeological evidence used to date is insufficient for a sound assessment and the development of thorough Iberian databases to address further meta-analysis are essential for more robust conclusions. Some clues are provided for these achievements to be fulfilled.

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Current and Future Needs and Applications for Cannabis

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Challenges towards Revitalizing Hemp: A Multifaceted Crop

Challenges towards Revitalizing Hemp: A Multifaceted Crop

The application of hemp (Cannabissativa L.) for a green economy: a review

When and How Did <em>Cannabis</em> Reach Europe and the Iberian Peninsula?

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