UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R2

1972 UMS Turkey T A2 Reproduction
UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R2
At a Glance
Accession Type	Reproduction
Location
Country	Turkey
Collection
Method	Herbarium specimen
Sourcing Type	Multi-generation reproduction
Harvest Date	1972
Collector	R.E. Schultes,T.C. Plowman,T.E. Lockwood
Specimen
Repository	Harvard University Herbaria
Catalogue Number	ECON 01005339, ECON 01005238, ECON 01005245, ECON 01005338
Scientific Name	Cannabis sativa L.
Identified By	E. Small (1976)
Occurrence Record	View occurrence record
Genetic Relationships
Reproduction of 1972 UMS Turkey T A1 Reproduction Reproductions of this accession 1972 UMS Turkey T A3 Reproduction Related accessions 1970 UMS Turkey MS-SDD Reproduction 1970 UMS Turkey MS-SEE Reproduction 1970 UMS Turkey MS-SPP Reproduction 1970 UMS Turkey MS-SY Reproduction 1971 UMS Turkey MS-SFF Reproduction 1971 UMS Turkey MS-SGG Reproduction 1971 UMS Turkey MS-SHHH Reproduction 1972 UMS Turkey T A Reproduction 1972 UMS Turkey T A1 Reproduction 1972 UMS Turkey T A3 Reproduction 1972 UMS Turkey T C Reproduction

1972 UMS Turkey T A2 Reproduction is a reproduction accession of Cannabis sativa grown from seed recorded as coming from Turkey. It is known from four herbarium sheets gathered between 31 July and 1 August 1972 by Richard Evans Schultes, Timothy Plowman and T. E. Lockwood in the National Institute of Mental Health Cannabis Garden of the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. The labels carry the lot code T A2 and call the plants the second generation of original sample. The sheets are held in the Economic Botany Herbarium of the Harvard University Herbaria.

Seed lot

Every label reads Turkish, second generation of original sample. The generation before it is T A1 (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R1). That season the garden also grew the original sample, T A (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001) and T A3 (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720001-R3), and the Turkish third seed lot, T C (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019720002). Earlier Turkish seed had been grown at the university under M. W. Quimby's codes MS-SDD, MS-SEE, MS-SPP and MS-SY in 1970 (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019700001, UMS-TUR-UNK-0019700002, UMS-TUR-UNK-0019700003, UMS-TUR-UNK-0019700004) and MS-SFF, MS-SGG and MS-SHHH in 1971 (UMS-TUR-UNK-0019710001, UMS-TUR-UNK-0019710002, UMS-TUR-UNK-0019710003).

Grow-out

The garden lay on university land at University, in Lafayette County, Mississippi. The sheets of this lot carry the plant numbers 60 A, 60B, 61 A and 61 B, one letter to a plant. In 1968 the National Institute of Mental Health offered a contract for the supply of standardised marijuana to researchers, and Norman Doorenbos, who chaired the university's Department of Pharmacognosy, won it. The university's own account of the programme says that the first experimental plot, grown that year, was sown with seed from Mexico, Panama, Southeast Asia, Korea, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Lebanon, and that a secured garden was built in 1969 for the first substantial crop. Schultes and his co-authors later wrote that their collections and studies in the extensive Mississippi plantation and elsewhere had shown that the characters of growth habit in cannabis seemed to be genetically stable.^: 356

Specimens and identification

The original label name is Cannabis sp. On 16 February 1976 Ernest Small determined the four sheets as Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, the name under which Harvard files them.

Barcode	Accession no.	Plant	Label remark (Harvard transcription)
01005339	ECON 34928	60 A	Code No. T A2, Turkish, second generation of original sample
01005238	ECON 34926	60B	Code No. T A 2 - Turkish, second generation of original sample
01005245	ECON 34929	61 A	Code No. T A 2 - Turkish, second generation of original sample
01005338	ECON 34927	61 B	Code No. T A2, Turkish, second generation of original sample