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1996 VIR/IHA Cannabis Germplasm Preservation Project
The 1996 Cannabis Germplasm
Preservation Project was carried out at the Pavlovsk, Ekaterinino, Ustimovka and Kuban
Experimental Stations of the Vavilov Research Institute (VIR), as in previous years.
Additional plantings were made on isolated plots at Donskaya Experimental Station
of the Institute of Oil Crops (Rostov Region) and the Penza Institute of Agriculture (see.
Table 1). Out of 111 accessions planted, seed yield was received from only 87.
The major factors that caused this situation were unfavorable weather conditions
and thefts. The work at Donskaya Station was a failure, as maturing plants on all
the plots were stolen. It seems advisable to refrain from collaboration with this
site in the coming year. Similar losses at other stations were also significant and
caused low seed yields.
Sixteen monoecious samples were successfully
reproduced in separate boxes in the glass houses of the Pushkin Laboratories of the VIR.
Small seed quantities were obtained from each accession, and dioecious individuals
eliminated.
A complete report of the 1996 Cannabis Germplasm
Preservation Project will appear in the June 1997 JIHA 4(1).