This episode’s guest is Hope Jones. She is the CEO of Superior Phenos, LLC, a hemp young plant production company in Arizona and CEO of Emergent Cannabis Sciences, an international cannabis and micropropagation consulting company with clients in Colombia, Australia, Germany and Canada.



Dr. Jones has deep expertise in both hemp and cannabis often serving as an expert consultant on forming policy at the state and federal levels. NASA also tapped her micropropogation expertise to develop programs for growing plants on deep space missions. 



In our conversation, we talked a lot about tissue culture, as Dr. Jones will be leading a panel on the topic at CannMed 2021. We covered:



How cultivators use tissue culture to remediate plants that are infected with pathogens such as powdery mildew and Hop Latent Viroid How the COVID 19 pandemic has made Hope’s conversations with cultivators about plant virus and pathogen infections easierHow tissue culture can produce changes to the plant’s DNA Why alcohol is not an effective anti-viral solution for plantsHow cryogenic storage of tissue cultured mother plants can be used as an insurance policy against pathogen infection or other disasters



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Additional Resources:



Emergent Cannabis SciencesArchive of Articles Hope has written for Cannabis Industry JournalCannMed Coffee Talk 17 with Mark Jordan Learn more about HLVd