Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa) as an Emerging Source for Value-Added Functional Food Ingredients and Nutraceuticals

HPV Rupasinghe, A Davis, SK Kumar, B Murray… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L., Cannabaceae) is an ancient cultivated plant originating
from Central Asia and historically has been a multi-use crop valued for its fiber, food, and …

Cannabis sativa: The Plant of the Thousand and One Molecules

CM Andre, JF Hausman, G Guerriero - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Cannabis sativa L. is an important herbaceous species originating from Central Asia, which
has been used in folk medicine and as a source of textile fiber since the dawn of times. This …

Large-scale whole-genome resequencing unravels the domestication history of Cannabis sativa

G Ren, X Zhang, Y Li, K Ridout… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Cannabis sativa has long been an important source of fiber extracted from hemp and both
medicinal and recreational drugs based on cannabinoid compounds. Here, we investigated …

Complete biosynthesis of cannabinoids and their unnatural analogues in yeast

X Luo, MA Reiter, L d'Espaux, J Wong, CM Denby… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cannabis sativa L. has been cultivated and used around the globe for its medicinal
properties for millennia 1. Some cannabinoids, the hallmark constituents of Cannabis, and …

[HTML][HTML] The case for the entourage effect and conventional breeding of clinical cannabis: no “strain,” no gain

EB Russo - Frontiers in plant science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The topic of Cannabis curries controversy in every sphere of influence, whether politics,
pharmacology, applied therapeutics or even botanical taxonomy. Debate as to the …

Cannabis glandular trichomes alter morphology and metabolite content during flower maturation

SJ Livingston, TD Quilichini, JK Booth… - The Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The cannabis leaf is iconic, but it is the flowers of cannabis that are consumed for the
psychoactive and medicinal effects of their specialized metabolites. Cannabinoid …

Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms

CE Niederhuth, AJ Bewick, L Ji, MS Alabady, KD Kim… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background DNA methylation is an important feature of plant epigenomes, involved in the
formation of heterochromatin and affecting gene expression. Extensive variation of DNA …

Challenges towards revitalizing hemp: A multifaceted crop

C Schluttenhofer, L Yuan - Trends in plant science, 2017 - cell.com
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 …

Evolution and Classification of Cannabis sativa (Marijuana, Hemp) in Relation to Human Utilization

E Small - The botanical review, 2015 - Springer
Cannabis sativa has been employed for thousands of years, primarily as a source of a stem
fiber (both the plant and the fiber termed “hemp”) and a resinous intoxicant (the plant and its …

Plant glandular trichomes: natural cell factories of high biotechnological interest

A Huchelmann, M Boutry, C Hachez - Plant physiology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Multicellular glandular trichomes are epidermal outgrowths characterized by the presence of
a head made of cells that have the ability to secrete or store large quantities of specialized …