UConn professor studies trichomes in cannabis

Cannabis has been gaining more and more attention as a promising tool for the medical community. Yet much of the plant’s biology remains a mystery that scientists are not unravelling.

Gerald “Gerry” Berkowitz, professor of plant science in the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources, has received a Research Excellence Program grant to study the molecular and genetic mechanisms responsible for trichome development in the cannabis plant.

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