From the abstract:
Results are given of independent, multi-year efforts by French and Ukrainian breeders to create new, highly productive, monoecious hemp varieties without drug properties, while retaining an innate resistance to pests and diseases.
Authors: P. Holoborodko, V. Virovets, I. Laiko, S. Bertucelli, O. Beherec, G. Fournier
About the authors
- Pavlo Holoborodko is the director of the Institute of Bast Crops at the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, 45 Tereschenkiv Street, 41400 Hlukhiv, Sumy region, Ukraine
- Viacheslav Virovets and Iryna Laiko are research assistants at the Institute of Bast Crops at the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, 45 Tereschenkiv Street, 41400 Hlukhiv, Sumy region, Ukraine
- Olivier Beherec is a hemp breeder nd deputy director of the Federation Nationale des Producteurs de Chanvre, 20, rue Paul Ligneul, 72 000 Le Mans, France
- Sylvestre Bertucelli is the director of the Federation Nationale des Producteurs de Chanvre and director of the Coopérative Centrale des Producteurs de Semences de Chanvre, 20, rue Paul Ligneul, 72000 Le mans, France
- Gilbert Fournier is professor of pharmacology at the Faculté de Pharmacie de Chatenay Malabry, 5 rue Jean Baptiste Clement, 92290 Chatenay Malabry, France