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Wildflower Marijuana Inc
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Close 2014-10-02 C$ 0.15
Market Cap C$ 4,501,016
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Wildflower Marijuana to set up tissue culture lab

2014-10-02 11:25 ET - News Release

Mr. William MacLean reports

WILDFLOWER TO SET UP TISSUE CULTURE LABORATORY

Wildflower Marijuana Inc. has expanded its business plan to include a tissue culture laboratory.

The company's plan was to set up a plant tissue culture laboratory to provide marijuana growing material rather than reproducing plants through traditional cuttings from a mother plant. Historically, cloning has been the standard for reproducing marijuana plants. There are many issues that arise with cloning including genetic drift, passing pests, contaminants, diseases or defects and less rigorous plants after multiple cuttings.

In response to these problems Wildflower sought a solution and found one of the top tissue culture specialists to join its advisory board and set up what it believes will be the very first marijuana tissue culture lab in North America. The benefits of tissue culturing include:

  • Thousands of plants can be cultured at one time with less money and space.
  • Avoids expensive mother room electrical and labour costs.
  • Unlike cloning, tissue culture protects strains from genetic drift.
  • Avoids the risk of contaminated mother plants passing pests and diseases to their clones.
  • Since tissue culturing requires little space, you can easily maintain hundreds of strains.
  • The company's plants will hold genetic structure better.
  • Tissue-cultured plants have more vigour than cuttings.
  • Tissue culturing rids genetics of pests and diseases so its plant starts are clean.
  • The better genetics will provide for a better yield.
  • By protecting its genetic stock, the company protects its brand.

Plant tissue culture is a process that involves exposing plant tissue to a specific regimen of nutrients, hormones and light under sterile, in vitro conditions to produce many new plants, each a clone of the original mother plant, over a very short period of time. Wildflower's tissue culture plants will be characterized by disease-free growth, a healthier root system, a more robust medicine and a higher survival rate.

The problems associated with cuttings from mother plants is not confined to marijuana plants, it applies to all plants. Currently, there are only a handful of tissue culture labs on the continent with many of them operating at full capacity with others expanding operations. What is clear is that supply is in no way meeting the demand in the agricultural multibillion-dollar industry. With minimal additional cost Wildflower can use its tissue culture lab to meet the increasing demand for various plant varieties.

William MacLean, president and chief executive officer of Wildflower, states: "The ability to pick the best plant and exponentially reproduce that exact plant is very exciting. Even more exciting are the margins that can be had by producing millions of the same plant. Further, this will allow Wildflower to start deriving revenue while we await Health Canada to issue our licence."

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