Crop Infrastructure Corp. announced it has made strategic hire to head up its genetics lab and ready the company for its 2019 CBD production season. The new division will also be developing high grade CBG and CBN genetics for the company's farms. Patrick McLoughlin has been appointed as Director of the newly-created Division of Micropropagation and Genetics at CROP Corp. McLoughlin He has previously worked on projects breeding resistance to downy mildew in impatiens walleriana, as well as studied plant-pathogen interactions between New Guinea impatiens and charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina).