Using Tissue Culture to Accelerate Propagation and Combat Pathogens with Bill Graham

Bill Graham is the Founder of Microcline Tissue Culture, a company that provides tissue culture kits, consulting, and training to cannabis cultivators.







With hands-on expertise, he retailed and distributed hydroponics supplies, sourced grow lights globally, created Biojuice nutrients, designed Phresh filter air quality systems, and simplified micropropagation cloning - creating the leading Microclone tissue culture kits in 2005.







During our conversation we discussed:









The basics of tissue culture







Tissue culture as propagation alternative to cloning







How mother plants can lead to pathogen infections and loss of vigor







Combining tissue culture and qPCR to eliminate pathogens, such as hop latent viroid







and more!









Thanks to This Episode's Sponsor: Cambium Analytica







Cambium Analytica, provides analytical, product development, and quality assurance services for the natural foods, botanical products, natural pharmaceutical, and dietary supplement industries. Cambium is a leading research organization that is focused on leveraging its expertise on drug discovery and method development, to be a research partner of choice for new innovative companies in the burgeoning botanical medicines space. Their focus on applying analytical techniques in combination with sensory, product development, and consumer research is driving advancement in natural product quality and innovation.







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