Cannabis Breeding and Transmission of Hop Latent Viroid HLVd
Professor DeBacco

Infected Female Plants
Higher transmission when the female plant is infected
However, there is still crossover infection even when the male (pollen) is the one infected with HLV
Can be as high as 43% in seeds, most of the contamination was found to be on the outside of the seed.
Limitations of HLVd
It can not become part of the genome of a particular cultivar.

What it Can Do
Impact epigenetics (expression) genetics of the plant.

Where is HLVd in the plant?
Viroid load throughout the plant can be very variable.

Multiple samples over the entire plant should be taken when submitting a sample for screening.

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