Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Tissue Culture: Present Status and Future Potential.

In recent years high-THC (psychoactive) and low-THC (industrial hemp) type cannabis ( L.) have gained immense attention in medical, food, and a plethora of other consumer product markets. Among the planting materials used for cultivation, tissue culture clones provide various advantages such as economies of scale, production of disease-free and true-to-type plants for reducing the risk of GMP-EuGMP level medical cannabis production, as well as the development and application of various technologies for genetic improvement.