I’m doing a doctorate in crop genomics and, now that I have a reasonable timeline for finishing, I’m starting to look ahead to what comes next. I have about a decade of experience consulting in the industry, but I’m continually surprised how little real R&D (processing excluded) is being done by American companies. I’m based in the midwest, so I’m sure that has a lot to do with it, so I’d love to hear about U.S.-based companies systematically improving plants/cultivation/post-harvest processing rather than just pheno hunting for prohibition-era cultivation techniques.
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There are very few people doing this legitimately nowadays. It’s sad but true 
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AgTonik does R&D about humate sources around the world and how they improve plants. We were the first to test for all the amino and organic acids in our deposit. We also tried to genomically map some of the plants and animals over 30 million years that make up the beneficial substances in our fulvic, amino and organic acids.
Personally, I do R&D on biostimulants and am a fertilizer nerd, although there are way smarter people here than myself.
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Me and my partner do r&d with growing and different genetics we’ve been running.
Whether it be plant count, nute ratios, nutrients in general, ec rates and dry back times. Anything you can think of growing wise we’ve both put in our own time to either research it or quite literally experiment with it.
I will say I’d rather run agt with jacks and no protekt as opposed to with it. My plants I run without it look 100% better than those with it since I can’t use agt as often either. But it also cuts down on cost per feeding.
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The best part is we change the names of strains for no reason and without telling anyone.
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that is to funny. was sent clones wedding cake and GMO
well he had a mix up. both clones grew /budded the same.
so was 2 of the same. had many people try it. no one thinks
is is wedding cake or GMO. so i have been calling it frosty
green bud. figured would be honest. guy that gave it to me
does not know. i don’t know so frosty green bud it is…
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Sorry Dr, we don’t do that here…
Might improve under schedule III
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Every significant firm with a competitive production line that isn’t simply retailing previously produced goods. IP theft is very common now-a-days, and NCA’s are becoming just as commonplace as NDA’s are.