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In 2019, AOAC developed an SMPR for Aspergillus, E.coli, Salmonella detection on cannabis. These are three separate SMPRs. AOAC does not have an official SMPR for TYM but we can take what we have [...]

In 2020, a Michigan lab contacted us claiming our CFU/cq calculations were not matching their samples, nor did they match a recently released Candida albicans NSI Total Yeast and Mold (TYM) [...]

In 2015 we published a microbiome survey of medicinal cannabis flowers. We followed up this study with another publication in 2016 in the open access and open peer review platform F1000. Both of [...]

Cannabis testing labs are being presented with a wide variety of microbial testing solutions, each claiming they can shorten test times, increase sensitivity, and lower costs. Given microbial [...]

This page contains several Tutorials for how to make use of Kannapedia.net data.

Any genome that doesn’t respond to our primers is sequenced to verify the organisms taxonomy. Fusarium proliferatum ATCC_76097 ATCC Accession 2x150bp Illumina Miseq assembled with Spades. [...]

IN NCBI and COGE- Released- PacBio CLR data Jamaican Lion Female (mother) Assembly https://mega.nz/#!1BYRyKDK!zOlM1xdGMAAoqk9z0vLmrTKFdf3UlhLjPUr9-Kp-kgA Jamaican Lion Male (father) Assembly [...]

Recently, some 450 cases of “vape pen” reported illnesses have allegedly contributed to six fatalities (NEJM). This health threat is serious, and tragic for its victims, but compared to the [...]

Angela Bacca authored an interesting article on the Jamaican Lion Genome project. As of 2019, all Kannapedia.net sequencing samples are mapped to the Jamaican Lion genome reference. [...]

The Boston Globe recently highlighted an important scientific debate ongoing in the Cannabis testing market of Massachusetts. Daniel Adams wrote this excellent piece on August 21st. On September [...]

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The first whole genome shotgun assemblies of microorganisms were published in 1995. Since then over 313,000 genomes have been sequenced to varying degrees. DNA sequencing has become the new [...]

Introduction Science has a reproducibility crisis. As a result there is an active debate in the scientific community on how to improve the Peer Review process. Retraction rates are also on the [...]

  On June 3rd, 2018 The DASH DAO funded Medicinal Genomics to finally crack the cannabis genome. Medicinal Genomics was the first company to sequence the cannabis genome in 2011 but the [...]

The DASH Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) has voted to fund the sequencing of a Type II cannabis plant and place this genome on a public blockchain with a novel crypto-incentivized, [...]

In April of 2018, DigiPath Labs and Medicinal Genomics began a research program to better understand testing discordance with 3M TAC and TYM Petri-Films and PathoSEEK qPCR. Discordant samples [...]

BLAST analysis of our STEC and general E.coli Primers Scroll down to see the more general E.coli Primer hits. Some are categorized as STEC, EHEC, ETEC, EPEC, etc.. but not all NCBI names are [...]

Botrytis cinerea Botrytis is a systemic mold infection in Cannabis. This mold is often called “Bud Rot” or “grey mold”. It can remain cryptic or dormant for long periods [...]

Prevent Russet mites with DNA based screening Introduction The microscopic Hemp Russet mite infects cannabis and can result in significant crop loss and chronic infestations. McPartland and [...]

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youPCR for the CBDA allele Etienne de Meijer pioneered the work on the Bd:Bt allele governing cannabinoid expression. We used Pacific Biosciences single molecule sequencing to identify the [...]

Early pest detection is the key to predictable yields Powdery Mildew is the most destructive fungal pathogen for Cannabis. It is an obligate biotroph that can vascularize into the plant tissue [...]

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  Introducing Portable Genomics and Point of Grow Marker Assisted Selection youPCR Speed, Confidentiality and Precision After consulting many legal firms in the cannabis industry, it has [...]

Until 2017, DNA sequencing cannabis strains has been a task only accessible to the well banked. The cost of DNA sequencers were $100,000 – $1,000,000 and the ancillary equipment required to [...]

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Until 2017, DNA sequencing cannabis strains has been a task only accessible to the well banked. The cost of DNA sequencers were $100,000 – $1,000,000 and the ancillary equipment required to [...]

On February 7, the Daily Mail reported a cancer patient in northern California died from a fungal infection that authorities suspect was caused by the inhalation of contaminated medical cannabis. [...]

It’s well known that plants express Terpenes as a response to their environment and as a communication language with microbes and insects. What is less well known is that bacteria are quite [...]