11/12/2020 1:53:44 PM | less than a minute read

Mintz Client Yield10 Bioscience Forging New Ground in Sustainable Agriculture

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I was excited that Mintz's dynamic Energy & Sustainability Practice Group recently featured the work of one of my clients, Yield10 Bioscience, in its newsletter. Yield10 is an agricultural biotechnology company traded on Nasdaq (ticker symbol: YTEN) with a fascinating and important goal: to develop superior gene traits for major crops, including corn, soybean, and canola, that will enable what they call "step-change" increases in crop yield, of at least 10-20 percent. They are also working on improvements to an oilseed crop called Camelina with the goal of developing a commercial crop product business that would sustainably produce nutritional oils (such as omega-3) and PHA biomaterials. Read more at the link below.

In order to develop high value seed traits for the agriculture and food industries, Yield10 uses its “Trait Factory,” including the “GRAIN” big data mining trait gene discovery tool, as well as the Camelina oilseed “Fast Field Testing” system. It is also developing improved Camelina varieties for the production and commercialization of nutritional oils, protein meal, and PHA biomaterials. Through these methods, Yield10 is developing proprietary, breakthrough plant biotechnologies to improve crop productivity.

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