Yield10 Makes Strides on Weed Control for Camelina

Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. has made significant progress on enabling weed control for camelina cultivation, an Oct. 11 news release said. Yield10 is developing camelina with tolerance to a broad leaf herbicide and herbicide package that incorporates tolerance for over-the-top application of broadleaf herbicide and tolerance to soil residual Group 2 herbicides.

“The Yield10 team is making significant progress toward our goal of launching elite herbicide tolerant camelina for producing feedstock oil for the biofuels market,” Kristi Snell, chief science officer for Yield10, said in the release. “We aim to facilitate the seamless integration of camelina with current weed control and crop rotation practices of major crops in order to enable the planting of camelina on large-scale acreage.”