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Tag: cannabis breeding

Practical information about selecting parents, making crosses, preserving traits, and evaluating cannabis populations across generations.

14 articles

Inbreeding depression is a decline in vigor, fertility, or other fitness traits that can appear as homozygosity rises.…

Heterosis is improved F1 performance relative to its parents for a measured trait. Learn how hybrid vigor is…

F2, F3, and F4 identify successive filial generations after a parental cross. Learn what changes across generations, why…

An inbred cannabis line is developed through repeated close mating to increase homozygosity and inheritance consistency. Learn what…

Regular cannabis seeds can produce male and female plants. Learn what the label means, when mixed-sex seed fits,…

Marker-assisted selection uses validated DNA markers to help choose cannabis breeding plants. It can improve efficiency, but it…

S1 cannabis seeds are first-generation selfed offspring from one selected genotype. They can expose and fix alleles, but…

Diploid cannabis has two chromosome sets, while triploid cannabis has three and is usually far less fertile. Reduced…

Cannabis phenotype hunting is a measured selection process: define the target, grow a mapped population, preserve candidates, test…

Genotype is a cannabis plant’s inherited genetic makeup; phenotype is what you can observe after those genetics interact…