They sent an email a few weeks back after their announcement.
“To our community,
We announced our plant breeding program on Tuesday. Unfortunately, some people are accusing us of stealing or claiming ownership over plant samples that have been sent to us. We take this seriously and we want to share more clarity and context.
We’re starting a breeding program.
We started Phylos with a simple
mission: to better understand cannabis. We always thought we’d get into plant breeding, but we thought we’d do it exclusively by bringing our science to breeding partners. After 5 years, we’ve learned a lot by analyzing the data from thousands of plants. But that data is not useful for breeding. The information on the Galaxy can’t be used to generate the genetic markers that power breeding programs.
The biggest thing we learned was that to have a real impact on the world we needed to launch our own in-house research program where we’ll grow thousands of plants, test them, generate data, and study that data to drive our breeding work. We have a team of data scientists and plant breeders that will drive an entirely new kind of breeding program, one that is founded on analysis we perform on our own plants, in house.
We would never steal your plants.
Not only is it impossible to recreate a plant from the dead samples you give us, but we also would never do it because it goes directly against our values and would destroy the trust the community has given us. We’re working with long-time Oregon breeders to negotiate fair licensing contracts for the seeds and clones that will serve as the foundation for our breeding program. We are not stealing anything to leverage our breeding work.
We're going to create outrageous new weed.
Alright, we hear you. This statement on social media was insensitive and lacked context. For that, we own the comments “made by sellouts for chads” and “lying ass buttholes” among some other really amazing ones. In all seriousness, we’re not going to compete directly with you. Our breeding work will be focused on difficult challenges like PM resistance. We’ll also be breeding hemp for industrial uses like hempcrete, bioplastics, and carbon sequestration. And we’ll also make some high-THC, high-terpene plants too—but those will be plants we’re committed to bringing back to the community. And we’ll let small farmers breed with them if they want to.
We're working on royalty-based in-licensing agreements with breeders.
We are in negotiations with a number of well-established breeders to distribute their best varieties under their brand as healthy, tissue culture clones through our nursery project, Conception. These breeders will get generous royalties for every plantlet sold. We’ll keep sharing details as we have them and we’re open to anyone who’s interested in working with us on this front.
We’re excited to share insights from the work we’re doing and will continue to funnel our learnings into tools for the cannabis community. We want to hear from you if you have any concerns. Email us, call us, DM us on Instagram, or stick pins in a Voodoo doll. We just want you to know we’re here for you first and foremost.
Sincerely,
All of us at Phylos”
...oh , and it hasn't helped her at all. TBH , i believe we know more about wat to do with it , than they do....
with Brawndo anytime soon 