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Baneswar General Population 2025 is a domesticate landrace cannabis accession. This accession was documented by Isabella in July 2025. A total of 1137 seeds were given to Isabella by a local cannabis grower alias 'Aarav'. The seeds come from a cultivated landrace cannabis population of 20 plants grown by Aarav near Baneswar village. Baneswar is located in Cooch Behar District, West Bengal, India, within the Koch Bihar landrace cannabis growing area of the North Bengal Plains growing region.
Sex determination in cannabis
Sex determination in cannabis is the genetic and developmental process that establishes whether a Cannabis plant develops as male, female, or, in some cultivated forms, monoecious. Cannabis is normally dioecious: pollen-bearing (male) and seed-bearing (female) flowers form on separate individuals, and sex is set by a pair of heteromorphic sex chromosomes. Females carry two X chromosomes (XX) and males an X and a Y (XY), so the male is the heterogametic sex and the Y is transmitted only through pollen.
Chromosomal sex, fixed at fertilisation, is distinct from sex expression: the male or female character of the flowers a plant actually produces. Sex expression is labile: hormonal, chemical and environmental signals can shift a plant toward the opposite sex's flowers without altering its chromosomes, and a genetically female (XX) plant induced to shed pollen transmits only X-bearing gametes.
The distinction is central to cannabis cultivation and breeding. Because cannabinoids accumulate chiefly in the unpollinated female inflorescence, drug-type and cannabinoid-hemp crops are grown as all-female stands; monoecious cultivars underpin uniform fibre and seed hemp; and reliable early identification of a plant's chromosomal sex, before flowers appear, is a routine breeding and roguing task. For dioecious landrace populations, the obligate outcrossing that dioecy enforces also shapes mating structure and the maintenance of genetic diversity. read more →
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