MJBizMag February 2022 - 42

LIQUID
GOLD?
BioHarvest Sciences announced
in December that it created
10 pounds of cannabis
trichomes in a bioreactor.
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A Post-Plant Future?
Will cannabinoids created in a bioreactor replace mainstream
cannabis agriculture?
By Omar Sacirbey
B
ioHarvest Sciences, a company
that biosynthetically created
grape and pomegranate extracts
to sell to food ingredient companies
and consumers, claims to have done
the same with cannabis.
The Canadian company with operations
in Israel said it used liquid
media in a bioreactor to create 10
kilograms (22 pounds) of trichomes in
December. The density of the trichomes,
according to the company,
is about 200 times higher than with a
typical marijuana plant.
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" It's like bubble hash. Literally 93%
of our biomass is trichome and the
other 7% is cell, " BioHarvest CEO Ilan
Sobel said.
Not only are the trichomes denser
than those harvested
from plants, but they
can be produced at
a fraction of the cost
and time required
for plant-derived
trichomes, Sobel
claimed, and with
equal purity.
Ilan Sobel
" We are now at the scaling stage,
taking this into industrial-size
bioreactors (and will be) bringing this
product to market in 2022, " Sobel said.
Increased
Competition
Ten-year-old BioHarvest
is one of many
companies working on
creating biosynthetic
cannabinoids.
Florida-based investment
firm Raymond

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