Vendas Novas, Portugal – January 20th 2025
AceCann, a leader in sustainable, high-quality medical cannabis production, is proud to announce a landmark partnership with Forest Green, a cutting-edge tissue culture laboratory based in Lisbon, Portugal. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in the advancement of medical cannabis cultivation, leveraging tissue culture technology to ensure pathogen-free, high-performing cultivars for the European market and beyond.
“This partnership with Forest Green underscores AceCann’s commitment to innovation and quality in the medical cannabis industry,” said António Vieira, CEO of AceCann. “By combining our state-of-the-art facilities with Forest Green’s expertise in tissue culture, we are poised to redefine standards in genetics preservation and production excellence. Also, we are very excited to partner with Christopher Leavitt who is a world reference in the field and has extensive and deep experience over the last 8 years including his role as a co-founder of Node Labs in California, United States”.
A Game-Changing Collaboration
The partnership allows Forest Green to operate its advanced tissue culture laboratory within AceCann’s licensed R&D facility both to AceCann and third parties. This collaboration provides AceCann and other potential clients with:
● Pathogen-Free Genetics: Access to tissue culture services ensuring a clean and reliable source of clone mothers, free from diseases;
● Priority Access to High-Performing Cultivars: Early testing and development of cutting-edge genetics tailored for premium flower production;
● Efficient genetics management: The reduced need to store clone mothers that aren’t active increased genetics storage efficiency, allowing for more room for active vegetative mothers;
● Sustainable Solutions: Integration of tissue culture processes that align with AceCann’s commitment to environmental responsibility.
In return, Forest Green benefits from access to AceCann’s top-notch and licensed facility, including R&D laboratory space, regulatory and quality control capabilities, and also logistics and export channels enabling its mission to bank and distribute high-value genetics for clients across Europe.
Innovation in Tissue Culture
Tissue culture is a transformative technology for the cannabis industry. By cultivating plants in a sterile environment, it ensures:
● Genetic Stability: Preservation of cultivar traits across multiple propagation cycles.
● Disease Prevention: Elimination of pathogens through advanced cleaning and sterilization processes.
● Long-Term Viability: Reliable storage and banking of genetic material for future use.
Christopher Leavitt, Founder of Forest Green, stated: “Our partnership with AceCann provides a unique opportunity to set a new standard in cannabis cultivation. By focusing on tissue culture, we ensure growers have access to the cleanest, most reliable genetics possible, paving the way for consistent and high-quality production.”
Driving the Future of Medical Cannabis
This partnership aligns with AceCann’s mission to deliver the highest quality medical cannabis while championing sustainability and innovation. The integration of tissue culture processes strengthens AceCann’s ability to:
● Meet increasing market demands with precision and reliability;
● Expand its portfolio with exclusive, high-value genetics;
● Enhance its reputation as a leader in medical cannabis innovation.
Other examples of Tissue Culture
Orchids and Tropical Plant- Nearly all ornamental orchids are propagated in large tissue culture laboratories, and this technology has revolutionized access to houseplants and other ornamental plants worldwide
Berries- Blackberries and blueberries are almost exclusively propagated by tissue culture and are a major success story for the strength of the technique. International cultivation and access of berries would not be possible without this technique.
Potatoes- Disease and virus/viroid prevention are paramount for potato micropropagation, and tissue culture labs serve as major hubs for large brands cultivation success. Frito-Lay Corporation is an example of a major company that uses tissue culture to protect its prized varieties.
About AceCann
AceCann is a European leader in medical cannabis, dedicated to producing premium, sustainable products through advanced cultivation techniques. With its fully indoor, certified facility in Portugal, AceCann prioritizes patient outcomes and environmental responsibility.
About Forest Green
Forest Green is a Lisbon-based tissue culture laboratory specializing in cleaning, banking, and distributing high-value cannabis genetics. Focused on innovation and quality, Forest Green provides growers with the tools they need to ensure consistent, pathogen-free production. Christopher Leavitt is the former co-founder of Node Labs, a prominent cannabis tissue culture laboratory in Petaluma, CA, where he innovated a stable and repeatable tissue culture process for over 350 cultivars for dozens of clients.
About Tissue Culture
Tissue culture consists of vegetative propagation in a sterile environment using containers with agar gel as the substrate. This provides a platform for pathogen-free plant stock that can also be effectively protected from viruses and viroids such as Hop-Latent Viroid. It is the world standard for high-quality plant propagation. For cannabis, tissue culture is best used as Germplasm Storage, which helps to retain clone accessions in a continuous cycle of propagation. For commercial cultivators, tissue culture represents a stable source of pathogen-free clone material to optimize plant health over long periods of time.
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