Yield10 Bioscience Working to Release Herbicide Tolerant Camelina

Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is working to release winter and spring Camelina varieties that are herbicide tolerant, a Feb. 21 news release said.

During he 2022 growing season, Yield10 was able to show its herbicide tolerant spring Camelina lines were tolerant to application of a commonly used broadleaf herbicide, the release said. In the 2022/2023 growing season Yield10 retested its lead commercial candidate herbicide tolerant spring Camelina lines in field trials in the southern United States with the results being replicated. They were also tolerant to the application of a grassy weed control product.

“The results of our southern U.S. winter field trials with the single HT trait in our spring Camelina lines as well as recent greenhouse studies on our next generation stacked HT trait package, which includes broadleaf weed control and tolerance to group 2 herbicide soil residues, indicate we remain on track to launch herbicide tolerant Camelina varieties. Our goal is robust weed control enabling growers to plant with confidence on a large scale,” Kristi Snell, chief science officer of Yield10 Bioscience, said in the release.