Vergara's Picks for "Top 5 Cannabis sativa Research Papers for 2025"

Daniela Vergara, Emerging Crops Specialist
Harvest New York

September 15, 2025

As presented at the 2025 Cornell High-Cannabinoid Hemp Cannabis sativa Field Day, Dr. Daniela Vergara shares her "Top 5 Research Papers for 2025."

#5: Bracts, Buds, and Biases: Uncovering Gaps in Trichome Density Quantification and Cannabinoid Concentration in Cannabis sativa L.

#4: Differential gene expression analysis of Cannabis sativa following Hop Latent Viroid (HLVd) eradication therapy in micropropagation tissue culture

#3: Mother transformer: A High-Throughput, Cost-Effective in Planta Hairy Root Transformation Methods for Cannabis

#2: Assessing the adaptive role of cannabidivarinic acid (CBDVA) in aphid defense in Cannabis sativa

#1: A review of sexual strategies in Cannabis sativa L. under genomic and environmental controls


Honorable mention to:
The Effects of Blue Light and Supplemental Far-Red on an In Vitro Multiple Harvest System for the Production of Cannabis sativa




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