Forging a New Frontier in Cannabis Written By: Christopher Pauli Our lives depend on plants, for food, clothes and beauty. And there are so many mysteries to explore. For instance: Why can a plant produce both male and female flowers when it appears genetically to be female? Can we determine the tissue-specific gene expression profiles of any organism? The Agricultural Genomics Foundation sponsors a research project at the University of Colorado Boulder that focuses on transcriptomics, or the study of RNA, the next genetic frontier for the Cannabis plant. With numerous transcriptomes sequenced, AGF is aiming to expand upon its previous work in the genome to include RNA data that will help us better understand how gene expression controls the plant. The genes expressed are called RNA, or ribonucleic acid, which collectively referred to as the transcriptome. By comparing the differences between these transcriptomes in different areas on the plant, we can unders
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