Alisha Holloway, PhD, is the chief scientific officer at Phylos, where she leads the research-and-development and breeding groups that focus on discovery and implementation of genetic markers for high-value traits and develop new cannabis varieties via classical and marker-assisted breeding. She holds an assistant professorship appointment at the University of California San Francisco and was the founding director of the Gladstone Institutes Bioinformatics Core Facility.
Cannabis, a plant with a rich and complex history intertwined with human civilization, offers a vast array of chemical compounds. Beyond the well-known tetrahydrocannabinol...