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ICR 2020 Cannabis Variety Definition V5 - Segra International

Systematic Variety Naming in Cannabis: Necessity and Approaches Generally accepted varietal designations are the norm for most cultivated plants. When a varietal name is backed up by breeding and cultivation records, it can be reliably associated with particular characteristics. This is important to cultivators and end use customers. By contrast, if varietal names are meaningless, cultivation and final product characteristics become a game of chance. Cultivators, researchers, and end consumers of both recreational and medical cannabis and derived products deserve the same level of certainty that product names are accurately and reliably applied to single cultivars as vintners, breweries, and their customers enjoy. Selective breeding strategies for new and desirable varietals would be greatly accelerated if disparate breeders can reliably compare results from single cultivars accurately linked by name. Drug type Cannabis cultivars are propagated and sold under well over 1000 unique names, from such well known appellations as “OG Kush” or “Sour Diesel” to the obscurity of “White Smurf” or “The Incredible Bulk”. Lacking strict regulation in the past, a combination of accidental and intentional causes may have contributed to irregularities in cannabis variety naming. Application of molecular fingerprinting technologies to extant cannabis samples from both grey and legal markets confirms this. Single names are found applied to wildly different genetic stocks; different names are applied to clonal materials from different sources; different lot numbers of ostensibly same material from same cultivator may be highly divergent; in some cases even single 1 g portions as sold have been detected to contain material from as many as four different genetic lineages. Pros and cons of different DNA fingerprinting methods will be touched on, and their application as a core component of a larger framework to establish, legitimize, and standardize cannabis variety names to the benefit of the whole industry will be presented. Segra International - http://www.segra-intl.com/