GCRC’s Mike Robinson Addresses Hemp Domestication Syndrome – Announces Mitigation Technology

As the hemp industry continues to grow despite  current economic challenges facing global economies, it’s easy to marvel at the immense progress corporations and countries continue to make in furthering the ability to grow the plant. CBD sales are booming in America and across the Atlantic as well as the threat of extreme FDA interference seems to have lightened up. But Mike Robinson of the Global Research Center (GCRC), who’s well known in the world of  hemp medicines has ventured into the world of the very plants that create it, and he’s made a bold announcement regarding troubles that are looming. 

“Breeding closely related plants potentially leads to loss of genetic diversity, in other words the continued creation of strains and domestication of what was once growing in the wild is causing a type of change in Hemp DNA that’s became beyond alarming to our researchers.” Founder Mike Robinson stated, “Globally we’re looking for answers to this and believe we’ve had a major breakthrough in the ability to mitigate the situation – we’ve made some major steps to begin to turn things around. The increased production globally is causing some of our plant medicine to lose its touch with Mother Earth. We believe we now know what these plants need, a new technology, to keep the DNA intact as they’re manipulated in commercial grows both indoor and out. This will be necessary across the globe to preserve plant medicine and will be useful for much more than Hemp – there’s a plethora of domesticated agriculture.”

Robinson works with the well-known bio tech Scientist Michael Pratt, the co-founder of San Diego Strain Development. “The two of them started collaborating to do a research study through the Autism Research Institute last year but the funding fell through”, stated GCRC’s Director of Communications David Uhalley. “They’ve been working on stabilizing genetics and during the pandemic it’s caused a divide of sorts. While Pratt works with his team in San Diego, Mike continues to collaborate with an international team. The fact they’ve found a way to help Hemp that’s losing its DNA due to overproduction or what they’re calling a Domestication Syndrome – well that’s groundbreaking.”

The Global Research Center recently announced its plans for the Hemp Instruction Center in Santa Barbara as well as its launch of the (HUG) Hemp Users Guide. “We’re tying together the research and development of plant medicine from various types of hemp along with how it grows. In doing so we’re also looking at variosu ways human health issus are treated based on matching DNA from the plant to the person. We’ve got variations occurring in strains based on the type of production of the Hemp itself – and as we look at human and the plant’s DNA and as the hemp and health industries advance this science – this is a big concern. The DNA must stay intact” Robinson said.

“Domestication Syndrome is a real issue that we’re working on daily – devoting several hours within the office myself while others are out in the field in various locations in multiple nations collaborating. There’re terpenes and flavonoids – other elements of the plant in there with CBD and the other plant constituents. When the profile of those change the strain has changed. It’s a mutation of sorts,” explains Robinson,

“When hemp strains suffer domestication syndrome they lose their defense mechanisms, and in this type of plant medicine that would be both flavonoids and terpenes. These items account for the smell and taste and are what defnies a strain. The flavor and smell of the plant are what protects it in the wild as well as how we define the various strains. Keeping them intact is imperative to the continued momentum of the industry – we can’t have our medicinal strengths varying based on Domestication Syndrome.” 

Robinson explained, “What we’ve discovered is a disconnect of the DNA itself. These plants grew in the wild for 10’s of thousands or maybe millions of years and suddenly we’re making them a domestic plant thinking there won’t be issues. I believe Michael Pratt and I have found some definitive answers to this problem and look forward to bringing GCRC into 2021 with a solution for the world to utilize. We believe we’ll have a way for growers to keep the DNA intact and in many cases correct issues that have already occurred.” 

About Hemp Instruction Guide/Hemp Instruction Center/GCRC

The Hemp Instruction Center is a Division of GCRC, an up and coming research center in Santa Barbara California that concentrates on both plants and plant medicine. The Hemp Users Guide was created to educate and inform consumers about Hemp, it’s uses, it’s History, and it’s Future. It’s also a great avenue to allow the Hemp Industry another platform for news, media, and more