Mowgli Holmes has been working to map cannabis genotypes at his Portland, Oregon, company Phylos since 2014. As cannabis growers across the world send samples for testing, Phylos employs modern molecular genetics and computational biology to create a “galaxy” visually representing hundreds of cannabis cultivars and how they relate to each other. Think of it as a slowly unfolding map of the cannabis genome, in all its 3D glory.
“It’s interesting how diverse and interbred cannabis is, and its galaxy is this tangled hairball that shows intense hybridization,” said Holmes. “Everything has been crossed and crossed in this atypical breeding situation that is very unlike any other crop. So, we have this weird population that is diverse, but blended together in this complicated soup.”
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