Sacramento, California, United States
Mark Jordan is currently the Nursery General Manager for Connected cannabis. He has created tissue culture labs dedicated to Cannabis research and is experimenting with Humulus/Cannabis crosses. His previous positions include work at Olson's Greenhouse, Eurofins Biodiagnostics, and the Denver Botanic Gardens. While at the Denver Botanic Gardens Mark worked as the Research Horticulturist, running the protocol creation tissue cultural lab, as well as a breeding program for Scutellaria and Dracocephalum. This experience allowed him to understand the potential for the application of tissue culture for the Cannabis industry and set him on the path he is now. Mark graduated from Colorado State University in 2014 with a degree in Horticulture specializing in Food Crops. In his free time, Mark enjoys growing a variety of other plants, including a rather large Aloe Polyphylla under a LED light in his living room.
Cannabis Tissue Culture and Germplasm Storage - Mark Jordan https://youtu.be/GDT5LLIRciU https://youtu.be/PE3zuZTjF88
Managing 12 propagation greenhouses for the 10th largest greenhouse company in the United States. The propagation greenhouses total around 3.5 acres of bench space. In total, the Colorado Greenhouses total around 35 acres of covered space. This involved propagation of 600k poinsettia's, 200k Germaniums, along with propagation involving millions of other cuttings and seeds dealing with both annuals and perennials mostly being sold to Walmart and Home Depot.
Tissue Culture Research. Grow Consulting. CannMed 2019 presentation: https://youtu.be/GDT5LLIRciU Publication Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.03.894428v1.full
During the majority of my 3+ years at RMIG LLC, I was Head of the Tissue Culture program and Head of growing with 14 room climate controlled indoor breeding facility. This job involved setting up an entire lab, creating all protocols for cannabis tissue culture, laying out the grow facility, training staff, developing a nutrient and IPM program from scratch, and started a long term professional breeding program using full-sib crosses. The breeding program is now aided by Sanger Sequencing and PCR Analysis mostly, using loop-mediated isothermal amplification, Tissue Culture, and NIR cannabinoid testing along with selective pollination using pollen bags.