Yield10 announces USDA-APHIS’s BRS determined Camelina can be grown in US

Yield10 Bioscience announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service’s, USDA-APHIS’s, Biotechnology Regulatory Services, BRS, has determined that Yield10’s stacked herbicide tolerant Camelina sativa may be grown and bred in the United States. In April 2023, Yield10 submitted Request for Confirmation of Regulatory Status packages to the BRS under the Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient Rule, for stacked HT Camelina varieties. The response from USDA-APHIS means that the agency does not consider the modified Camelina varieties to be an increased plant pest risk as compared to unmodified Camelina) and are therefore not subject to regulation under 7 CFR part 340 regulations. “Our team has done outstanding work advancing the development and commercialization of HT and stacked HT Camelina,” said Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Yield10 Bioscience. “We expect these varieties to form the centerpiece of our portfolio of elite Camelina varieties that our team will be able to offer to growers and will be critical to enabling the cultivation of Camelina on large acreage in North America. Our commercial strategy is to advance our leadership position in Camelina by innovating to bring forward new value-added traits to the Camelina crop that provide meaningful improvements in yield, agronomic, and economic performance to the grower.”