Moderated By: Daniel Joly, Apollo Green Nursery.
Panel Description:
Academic institutions are refining infertile cultivars and seed‑uniformity protocols, while industry breeders chase commercially-viable rapid market wins. This session puts both worlds at one table. Teskey Baldwin, an academic cannabis researcher and breeder from the University of Guelph, will share new findings on genetic stabilization and uniform seed lines; industry breeders will detail the real‑world pressures that shape their breeding objectives and selection choices. Together they’ll outline how intentional parent selection, tighter phenotypic baselines, and data‑backed markers can produce consistent, scalable cultivars. Attendees will leave with an understanding of where academia is pushing the science, where industry practice diverges, and how purposeful collaboration can move cannabis genetics forward.
