Description

Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant indigenous to eastern Asia but now of cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation. It has been cultivated throughout recorded history, used as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, recreation, religious and spiritual moods and medicine. C. sativa has been used as hallucinogenic, hypnotic, sedative, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory agent.

Scientific classitication

Family: Cannabaceae

Genus: Cannabis

Common Name

Da Ma

Reference

Grassa, C. J., Wenger, J. P., Dabney, C., Poplawski, S. G., Motley, S. T., Michael, T. P., ... & Weiblen, G. D. (2018). A complete Cannabis chromosome assembly and adaptive admixture for elevated cannabidiol (CBD) content. BioRxiv, 458083.

Reference

Gao, S., Wang, B., Xie, S., Xu, X., Zhang, J., Pei, L., Yu, Y., Yang, W., & Zhang, Y. (2020). A high-quality reference genome of wild Cannabis sativa. Horticulture research, 7, 73.

Reference

Laverty, K. U., Stout, J. M., Sullivan, M. J., Shah, H., Gill, N., Holbrook, L., Deikus, G., Sebra, R., Hughes, T. R., Page, J. E., & van Bakel, H. (2019). A physical and genetic map of Cannabis sativa identifies extensive rearrangements at the THC/CBD acid synthase loci. Genome research, 29(1), 146–156.

Reference

Laverty, K. U., Stout, J. M., Sullivan, M. J., Shah, H., Gill, N., Holbrook, L., Deikus, G., Sebra, R., Hughes, T. R., Page, J. E., & van Bakel, H. (2019). A physical and genetic map of Cannabis sativa identifies extensive rearrangements at the THC/CBD acid synthase loci. Genome research, 29(1), 146–156.