{"id":104278,"date":"2020-03-25T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/mapping-the-cannabis-genome-to-improve-crops-and-health"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:44:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T03:44:58","slug":"mapping-the-cannabis-genome-to-improve-crops-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/mapping-the-cannabis-genome-to-improve-crops-and-health","title":{"rendered":"Mapping the cannabis genome to improve crops and health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-the-cannabis-genome-to-improve-crops-and-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>:ooooo.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Unlocking the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health will require a co-ordinated scientific effort to assemble and map the cannabis genome, says a just-published international study led by University of Saskatchewan researchers.<\/p>\n<p>In a major statistical analysis of existing data and studies published in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1146\/annurev-arplant-081519-040203\"><em>Annual Review of Plant Biology<\/em><\/a>, the authors conclude there are large gaps in the scientific knowledge of this high-demand, multi-purpose crop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering the importance of genomics in the development of any crop, this analysis underlines the need for a co-ordinated effort to quantify the genetic and biochemical diversity of this species,\u201d the authors state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>:ooooo. Unlocking the full potential of cannabis for agriculture and human health will require a co-ordinated scientific effort to assemble and map the cannabis genome, says a just-published international study led by University of Saskatchewan researchers. In a major statistical analysis of existing data and studies published in the Annual Review of Plant Biology, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}