DNA PROJECT

Hello all,
I am looking for landrace seeds, even if old and dead.
We need them for a DNA project that will map the evolution and relationships and make a Cannabis family tree that will allow people to understand the origins of different varieties and where they came from, for example Mexican, Colombian, Jamaican were all brought from some where, after 1492. Even those say from Africa we brought from maybe India or Asia? This DNA Project will try and answer those questions.
If anyone has landrace variety seed un-hybridized, we want it, be it Drug, hemp or wild, just a few seeds can be used for the DNA work, if anyone wants to help, or has questions, PM me. The older the seeds the better to avoid genes from other areas (like Holland) being it it.
-SamS

I am pretty sure we have a lab in the Netherlands that will help with the project, I am 99% sure. That will allow us to use live seeds for DNA extractions and even leafs. A leaf is best as it is cheaper and easier and faster and better DNA results then a dead seed. Also better then a live seed, which wile better then a dead seed still is more time consuming then a leaf. The leaf can be dead and dry.
Sending live extracted DNA to the USA will allow faster, cheaper, better results, sounds much better for the work.
If anyone has landrace DNA we want it, dead or alive.
Thanks for the help....

-SamS

PM sent, Sam.

Sam_Skunkman said:

If anyone has landrace DNA we want it, dead or alive.
-SamS

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Sam The Skunkman, hello.
I guess you could ask Harvard Botanical Garden heritage keepers about Richard Evans Schultes heritage which you can see in the picture of hemp was grown and collected by RES in 1918 https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment.php?attachmentid=318308&stc=1&d=1432498786. In private correspondence of mine they told me there is no HBGarden at all as we knew it and there is probably no possibility to get seed examples from that old times. Smithsonian Institute may be the right place to get needed information too. My main interest, for example, was to find and obtain seeds of Kandahari variaty was observed and researched by RES. Was this collected then and preserved for years before Schultes passed away or No is the question for now. Look at second photo with him in the field near Kandahar https://www.icmag.com/ic/attachment.php?attachmentid=318309&stc=1&d=1432498810. It was after Vavilov visited Afghanistan in 1924 and researched its wild and cultivated afghanicas (kafiristanicas, etc). What is the date when RES had visited few fields near Kandahar is yet unknown to me. Your old friend and collegue R.C. Clarke is collaborating with VIR in Saint-Petersburg, Russia for many years, of course you know it. Few years ago I read that VIR has one old variaty of afghani genetics. I think this one is not which was collected by Vavilov himself but it is interesting anyway. What is the name of it there was no information at all. So R.C.C. may ask them for it also. And this is strange to read you are searching for rare genetics here when your american friends and colleagues stated this: “We have genetics that other people don’t”, read here http://fusion.net/story/40949/marijuana-genetics Do you know for sure what these genetics are? I guess Yes you know. You work with them as Robert is on the list too, here is it http://phylosbioscience.com/about/#company
http://cannabisgenomics.org/cannadata

Still collecting for the DNA project if anyone has landraces.
PM me.
-SamS

Is this still good? I have some.. cant pm yet though.

Is this still good? I have some that id like to share.. cant pm yet though..