Genetics & Lineage
Parentage not published by the breeder. No single parent pair is established for this catalog entry. Areto does not estimate parents it has no report of.
Academic research: Nonfunctional CBDAS-like (subclade B2) pseudogene sequences were found in Jamaican Lion, described as a THCA-producing cultivar. (2021; citation)
Academic research: The Jamaican Lion genome assembly provided contigs long enough to see TPS cluster organization, so the paper used it for terpene synthase gene discovery. (2019; citation)
Effects
Aroma & Taste
Academic research (4 studies)
Peer-reviewed, open-access studies that examined samples sold or grown under this name. Findings describe those samples, not the breeder’s release, and may not match every product. Each quote is copied from the paper’s full text.
- Cannabinoids: The paper lists chemotype II for the Jamaican Lion mother genome and chemotype III for the father genome.
“Cultivar | Finola | Purple Kush | CBDRx | Jamaican Lion (Mother) | Jamaican Lion (Father) | Jilong Chemotype | III | I | III | II | III | Unknown”
van Velzen R, Schranz ME. (2021). Origin and Evolution of the Cannabinoid Oxidocyclase Gene Family. Genome biology and evolution. doi:10.1093/gbe/evab130
- Cannabinoids: Jamaican Lion DASH, a medical strain, is described as having 13% CBD and 9% THC.
“Jamaican Lion DASH (CsJLD), a medical strain with 13% CBD and 9% THC (McKernan et al., 2018)”
Cai S et al. (2021). CannabisGDB: a comprehensive genomic database for Cannabis Sativa L. Plant biotechnology journal. doi:10.1111/pbi.13548
- Cannabinoids: Jamaican Lion is described as an intermediate-type cultivar whose assembly failed to place intact THCAS and CBDAS genes on the same contig.
“assemblies from intermediate‐type cultivars (Cannbio2, GCA_016165845.1 and Jamaican Lion, GCA_003660325.2) failed to assemble intact THCAS and CBDAS genes on the same contig.”
Allen K, Torres A, Gaudino R. (2026). The Structure of the Chemotype Determining Locus in <i>Cannabis sativa</i>. Plant direct. doi:10.1002/pld3.70166
- Genetic analysis: The Jamaican Lion genome assembly provided contigs long enough to see TPS cluster organization, so the paper used it for terpene synthase gene discovery.GCA_003660325.2
“The Jamaican Lion assembly (GenBank accession GCA_003660325.2) has provided contigs long enough to see cluster organization, so we carried out gene discovery in this more complete genome.”
Allen KD et al. (2019). Genomic characterization of the complete terpene synthase gene family from Cannabis sativa. PloS one. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222363
- Genetic analysis: Nonfunctional CBDAS-like (subclade B2) pseudogene sequences were found in Jamaican Lion, described as a THCA-producing cultivar.subclade B2
“Subclade B2 comprises the nonfunctional (pseudo)gene sequences from THCA-producing cultivars such as “Purple Kush,” “Jamaican Lion,” “Skunk#1,” “Chocolope,” and “Northern Light””
van Velzen R, Schranz ME. (2021). Origin and Evolution of the Cannabinoid Oxidocyclase Gene Family. Genome biology and evolution. doi:10.1093/gbe/evab130
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