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Agriculture and plant biology

Section Editor: Nirit Bernstein, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel
Covers all species and strains of the Cannabis plant, including their cultivation and biology.


  1. The eradication of poverty and malnutrition are some of the main goals set by the United Nations through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2. Humans have traditionally used Cannabis sativa L. for a v...

    Authors: Mdungazi K. Maluleke and Kgaogelo R. Thobejane
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2025 7:17
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  2. Plants, especially those recognized for their medicinal properties, are an excellent source of bioactive components and are attracting considerable interest in the food industry due to their natural bioactivit...

    Authors: Aaron Dudley, Lamin S. Kassama, Armitra Jackson-Davis, Ernst Cebert and Xianyan Kuang
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2025 7:9
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  3. Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) alters the gaseous composition of air surrounding packaged goods to prevent deleterious oxidation associated reactions. MAP has been adopted for the storage of cannabis, tho...

    Authors: Luke L. MacLaughlin and Mason T. MacDonald
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2024 6:42
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  4. Cannabis sativa cultivars can be classified as marijuana or hemp, depending on its amount of the psychoactive cannabinoid Ī”9ā€tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA). Hemp Cheungsam is a non-drug type Cannabis sativa t...

    Authors: Benny Jian Rong Sng, Yu Jeong Jeong, Sing Hui Leong, Jae Cheol Jeong, Jiyoung Lee, Sarojam Rajani, Cha Young Kim and In-Cheol Jang
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2024 6:35
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  5. Cannabinoid decarboxylation via thermo-chemical conversion has the potential to reduce the cannabinoid degradation and evaporation due to short reaction time and use of water as the solvent. When combined with...

    Authors: Urvashi, Joon-Hee Han, Min Hong, Tae-Hyung Kwon, Melvin Druelinger, Sang-Hyuck Park, Chad A. Kinney and Kenneth J. Olejar
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2024 6:33
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  6. The use of industrial Cannabis sativa L. for recreational, cosmeceutical, nutraceutical, and medicinal purposes has gained momentum due to its rich content of valuable phytochemicals, such as cannabidiol (CBD) an...

    Authors: Gloria Spampinato, Francesco Candeliere, Alberto Amaretti, Roberta Paris, Massimo Montanari, Nino VirzƬ, Lorenzo Strani, Cinzia Citti, Giuseppe Cannazza, Maddalena Rossi and Stefano Raimondi
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2024 6:31
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  7. In 2019 and 2020, we investigated the individual and combined effects of two biofertilizers (manure tea and bioinoculant) and one humic acid (HA) product on cannabis biochemical and physiological parameters an...

    Authors: Jose F. Da Cunha Leme Filho, Bee K. Chim, Cameron Bermand, Andre A. Diatta and Wade E. Thomason
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2024 6:16
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  8. As Cannabis was legalised in Canada for recreational use in 2018 with the implementation of the Cannabis Act, Regulations were put in place to ensure safety and consistency across the cannabis industry. This incl...

    Authors: Mathieu Gagnon, Tyler McRitchie, Kim Montsion, JosƩe Tully, Michel Blais, Neil Snider and David R. Blais
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2023 5:34
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  9. This paper examines the factors that led to the collapse of hemp grown for cannabidiol (CBD) in Arizona, the United States of America (USA), and particularly in Yuma County, which is a well-established agricul...

    Authors: Anastasia K. Stats, Ken G. Sweat, Robert N. Masson, Kendra D. Conrow, Amy E. Frazier and Maxwell C. K. Leung
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2023 5:19
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  10. Glandular capitate trichomes which form on bract tissues of female inflorescences of high THC-containing Cannabis sativa L. plants are important sources of terpenes and cannabinoids. The influence of plant age an...

    Authors: Zamir K. Punja, Darren B. Sutton and Tommy Kim
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2023 5:12
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  11. Ī”9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main psychoactive component and one of the most important medicinal compounds in cannabis. Whether in human body fluids and breath or in laboratory and field samples, rapid a....

    Authors: Kaveh Amini, Ali Sepehrifard, Ali Valinasabpouri, Jennifer Safruk, Davide Angelone and Tiago de Campos Lourenco
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2022 4:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Journal of Cannabis Research 2022 4:38

  12. Cannabis sativa L. produces at least 120 cannabinoids. Although genetic variation is the main factor in cannabinoid production, the effects of short-term environmental stresses in the early flowering stage remain...

    Authors: Sang-Hyuck Park, Christopher S. Pauli, Eric L. Gostin, S. Kyle Staples, Dustin Seifried, Chad Kinney and Brian D. Vanden Heuvel
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2022 4:1
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  13. Pesticide testing for hemp has traditionally focused on techniques like QuEChERS with dSPE and SPE which demand time-consuming sample preparation, typically resulting in poor recovery rates for some pesticides...

    Authors: Avinash Dalmia, Erasmus Cudjoe, Jacob Jalali and Feng Qin
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2021 3:50
    Content type: Original research Published on:

  15. The use of medical cannabis (MC) in the medical field has been expanding over the last decade, as more therapeutic beneficial properties of MC are discovered, ranging from general analgesics to anti-inflammato...

    Authors: Shachar Jerushalmi, Marcel Maymon, Aviv Dombrovsky and Stanley Freeman
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2020 2:12
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  16. Unlike other plants, Cannabis sativa is excluded from regulation by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Distinctive Cannabis varieties are ostracized from registration and therefore nearly impossi...

    Authors: Anna L. Schwabe and Mitchell E. McGlaughlin
    Citation: Journal of Cannabis Research 2019 1:3
    Content type: Original research Published on:

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