Industrial Hemp as a Modern Commodity Crop, 2019

Hemp as a Modern U.S. Commodity Crop provides an overview of industrial hemp as an agronomic crop in western cropping systems. Emphasis is given to the long history of hemp, mostly in the United States, and to current production issues pertinent in the US as well as Europe and Canada. There are many questions still to be answered – starting with those to be addressed by the most basic classical plant breeding techniques and continuing to the most modern analytical techniques of plant tissues and genetics.

A Preface to a Modern View of Industrial Hemp as a U.S. Commodity Crop v

Chapter 1: The History of Hemp 1

Chapter 2: Hemp Grain 26

Chapter 3: Hemp Fibers 37

Chapter 4: Hemp Agronomy - Grain and Fiber Production 58

Chapter 5: Cannabinoids–Human Physiology and Agronomic Principles for Production 73

Chapter 6: Hemp Genetics and Genomics 94

Chapter 7: Economic Issues and Perspectives for Industrial Hemp 109

Epilogue 122