Publications by authors named "Austin Baiton"
For centuries, cannabis has been a rich source of fibrous, pharmaceutical, and recreational ingredients. Phytocannabinoids are the most important and well-known class of cannabis-derived secondary metabolites and display a broad range of health-promoting and psychoactive effects. The unique characteristics of phytocannabinoids (e.
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- Cannabis has potential as an ornamental plant due to its attractive growth habit, dense foliage, and aromatic flowers, but legal restrictions have hindered its use in horticulture.
- Research suggests that ornamental cannabis could be valuable for both potted displays and landscaping, but its market readiness hinges on changes in legal status.
- The text emphasizes the possibility of breeding cannabis varieties with minimal psychoactive properties to enhance ornamental traits, presenting opportunities for economic growth and business branding if legalized.
For a long time, has been used for therapeutic and industrial purposes. Due to its increasing demand in medicine, recreation, and industry, there is a dire need to apply new biotechnological tools to introduce new genotypes with desirable traits and enhanced secondary metabolite production. Micropropagation, conservation, cell suspension culture, hairy root culture, polyploidy manipulation, and -mediated gene transformation have been studied and used in cannabis.
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