🧬 VIROIDS: Identifying, Understanding, and Eliminating Cannabis Virals, with Kevin McKernan
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4.7 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Follow along with our viroid resource at www.growcastpodcast.com/viroid
Contributor to the Human Genome Project and cannabis viral expert Kevin McKernan debuts on the show for a DEEP DIVE into viral cannabis pathogens! Kevin starts by breaking down the science of what a viroid is, how it differs from a virus, and what it's role in the natural world is. He discusses hop latent viroid in cannabis, and explains the mechanisms by which it replicates itself using the plant's energy, and stops the expression of desirable traits like potency, terpene expression, and more. This leads to a conversation about the hops industry, where instead they opted to breed cultivars that would carry the virus but resist it- as opposed to the cannabis approach of testing for viruses and culling any positives. Kevin wraps up the show by talking about tobacco mosaic virus, why it's so misdiagnosed, and just how many varieties there are of these types of plant virals...
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings cultivators worldwide. Jordan River back with more growcast, serving you faithfully in your |
| 0:06.8 | garden. Today we have a brand new guest as we enter this new year and we enter in-depth January. That's right. |
| 0:14.8 | It's deep dive after deep dive. Some in-depth education all month long. Well, our first guest, like I said, a brand new one, |
| 0:22.9 | Kevin McKernan is a viral expert. This episode is going to open your eyes to hop latent |
| 0:28.7 | viroid, tobacco mosaic virus, and we're going to go deeper than we've ever gone before. |
| 0:32.8 | And by the end of this episode, you're going to understand more about these viruses and |
| 0:36.3 | viroids than you ever have |
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