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September 05, 2018 08:00 ET - Yield10 Bioscience Reports Promising Seed Yield Results for Novel Yield Trait C3004 in Growth Chamber Studies in Camelina
--Fast-Tracking Deployment of C3004 Trait into Canola and Soybean

WOBURN, Mass., Sept. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:YTEN), a Company developing new technologies to create step-change improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security, today announced promising results for its novel yield trait C3004 in growth chamber studies conducted using its Camelina platform. Camelina plant lines containing C3004 grew vigorously, and the best lines produced increases in seed yield in a range of 26% to 65% as compared to control plants. Yield10 plans to conduct field tests of the C3004 trait in Camelina as part of its 2019 Field Test program in Canada. In addition, Yield10 is fast tracking deployment of the C3004 trait into canola and soybean to determine if the trait produces similar effects on plant vigor and seed yield in major oilseed crops.

“Our early research results with C3004 in Camelina including plant growth and vigor, branching and seed yield, though preliminary, are very encouraging,” said Kristi Snell, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer of Yield10 Bioscience. “These initial seed yield data for C3004 suggest we can harness the metabolic machinery of plants to drive robust increases in seed yield in Camelina. The next step is to determine if the effects of C3004 on plant vigor and seed yield can be successfully achieved in Camelina under field conditions and translated into canola, soybean and other commercial crops.”

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/09/05/1565554/0/en/Yield10-Bioscience-Reports-Promising-Seed-Yield-Results-for-Novel-Yield-Trait-C3004-in-Growth-Chamber-Studies-in-Camelina.html