California’s pot farms are fighting a severe plant disease, but the discovery of an unusual type of cannabis is offering hope.
Scientists have discovered a type of purple-colored cannabis that appears to fight the widespread plant disease, which is called hop-latent viroid, or HLVd. HLVd damages cannabis plants and significantly reduces their value by decreasing the amount of active compounds, like THC, they produce.announced they had accidentally discovered
Kevin McKernan, the chief science officer for Medicinal Genomics, announced his company’s findings earlier this month at. McKernan said the plant was significantly more purple than a second plant that had the same genetics but was not exposed to the viroid. It’s extremely hard to get rid of the pathogen because HLVd spreads easily between plants, sticking to tools and circulating inside a pot farm’s water supply. Not only that, but once a plant is infected with HLVd, it makes the plant more susceptible to catching other diseases — a phenomenon that led Punja to dub HLVd the “COVID of the cannabis world.”
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