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As nurseries and garden centers fill up with spring landscaping plants, home gardeners owe a lot to a technique called micropropagation, which has proven beneficial to many plants - perhaps soon to include cannabis, thanks to work by UConn researchers in the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources.
Micropropagation is a technique used for growing large quantities of new plants from fewer parent plants, yielding clones with the same, predictable qualities. The cannabis (Cannabis sativa) industry, however, has been largely left out of this beneficial technique, because this species of plant is extremely difficult to micropropagate.
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Non-Degree Cannabis Courses Open Doors to Growing Industry
New classes make cannabis education more accessible for UConn students and the general public
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UConn made waves in 2019 when it announced it would begin offering the nation’s first university class on the fundamentals of cannabis horticulture. The state’s flagship university is now expanding its educational opportunities for students and the general public with online courses in basic and advanced cannabis growing that are open to all.
Classes on the emerging industry have been in high demand, a fact that Gerald “Gerry” Berkowitz has been predicting for years.
Horticulture professor patents new plants
This article originally appeared on CAHNR Newsroom. By Kim Colavito Markesich Since 1988, Mark Brand, professor of horticulture in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, has been involved in plant breeding yielding over thirty-eight plant introductions and twenty patented plants for the University. Each new cultivar takes at least ten to fifteen years […]
Dark Star, a smaller form of purple leaf sand cherry, is one of Mark Brand’s new patented plants. Copy Link
Since 1988, Mark Brand, professor of horticulture in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, has been involved in plant breeding yielding over thirty-eight plant introductions and twenty patented plants for the University. Each new cultivar takes at least ten to fifteen years to bring to market, while the patents help fund research at the College.