Yield10 Bioscience Chief Science Officer Dr. Kristi Snell to Present on Advancements in Producing PHA Bioplastic in Camelina at the CROPS 2022: Improving Agriculture Through Genomics Conference
June 15 2022 - 8:30AM
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:YTEN) (“Yield10” or the
“Company”), an agricultural bioscience company, today announced
that its Chief Science Officer Dr. Kristi Snell will present during
the CROPS 2022: Improving Agriculture Through Genomics Conference
taking place June 13 through June 16, 2022 in Huntsville, Alabama.
Dr. Snell will make a presentation on Wednesday, June 15, during
the session entitled “Plant Engineering for Increased
Sustainability” scheduled for 9:10 am – 10:50 am CT (10:10 am –
11:50 am ET). Her presentation entitled “Breakthroughs in Plant
Based Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Production” will describe insights
into the plant biology of Camelina that led to the successful
engineering of a bacterial pathway for producing PHB in the cytosol
of Camelina seed.
Yield10 researchers have conducted a research program aimed at
producing PHA bioplastics in the seed of the Camelina plant as a
sustainable, low-cost method for producing this material. Yield10
developed a new technology solution for deploying the PHB pathway
and filed a patent application in 2019. Using this approach,
Yield10 obtained Camelina plants showing up to 10.2 percent PHB in
seed that had good emergence and survival in growth chambers.
Subsequent field tests with prototype Camelina PHB containing lines
have shown approximately six percent PHB in the seed in two
consecutive years. In 2022, Yield10 is planting at acre-scale the
leading plant line in order to harvest PHB for product prototyping,
sampling and other business development activities. The development
of elite PHA Camelina lines with yields in the 10 to 20 percent
range is ongoing as well as the engineering of PHA copolymers in
Camelina.
“Our team has leveraged advanced tools in synthetic biology to
successfully demonstrate proof of concept for producing PHA
bioplastics in Camelina seed,” said Kristi Snell, Ph.D., Chief
Science Officer of Yield10 Bioscience. “This spring we are growing
prototype PHA Camelina at the acre-scale and plan to extract the
PHA from seed for business development use. We have also deployed
PHA in winter Camelina lines and will test those for the first time
in the field later this year. As we move the program ahead, we are
pursuing multiple strategies to achieve our goal of reaching PHA
yields of 10 to 20 percent in Camelina seed from field grown
plants.”
Learn more about the CROPS 2022: Improving Agriculture Through
Genomics conference on the conference website. A copy of Dr.
Snell’s slide deck is available on the Yield10 Bioscience investor
relations website.
Background on PHA Bioplastics
Global plastic waste is estimated at 380 million metric tons per
year. The largest market for plastics today is for packaging
materials, and it accounts for nearly half of all plastic waste
generated globally, where most of it is never recycled or
incinerated. We believe there may be significant market opportunity
for producing PHA biomaterials in Camelina in the future. PHA
biomaterials (PHAs) are natural microbial high molecular weight
polymeric storage polymers. These polymers are natural polyesters
and can be recovered from the microbes that produce them and
processed using standard plastics processing equipment into a range
of product forms. The production of PHA bioplastics in Camelina
could represent an entirely new market opportunity for farmers.
This opportunity could provide economic returns for farmers to
justify large acreage adoption of Camelina as a cover crop and
enable the low-cost production of this product for new markets
including water treatment and sustainable biodegradable plastics
replacement applications.
About Camelina sativa
Camelina sativa, commonly known as Camelina or false flax, is an
annual oilseed plant in the mustard family that is native to
Europe. Camelina has the potential to replicate the development of
modern canola from rapeseed on an accelerated timeline based on
modern technologies, including genomics and genome editing.
Additionally, Camelina grows on marginal lands, displays early
maturation, has enhanced drought and cold tolerance, and requires
fewer inputs than other oilseed crops. With social conscience and
sustainability in mind, Yield10 is leveraging its innovations in
Camelina to use it as a platform crop for producing low-carbon
feedstock oil for renewable fuel; omega-3 nutritional oils;
high-protein meal; and PHA bioplastic.
About Yield10 Bioscience
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is an agricultural bioscience company
that is using its differentiated trait gene discovery platform, the
“Trait Factory”, to develop improved Camelina varieties for the
production of proprietary seed products, and to discover high value
genetic traits for the agriculture and food industries. Our goals
are to efficiently establish a high value seed products business
based on developing superior varieties of Camelina to produce
biofuel feedstock oils, PHA bioplastics and omega-3 (DHA+EPA) oils
and to license our yield traits to major seed companies for
commercialization in major row crops, including corn, soybean and
canola. Yield10 is headquartered in Woburn, MA and has an Oilseeds
Center of Excellence in Saskatoon, Canada.
For more information about the company, please visit
www.yield10bio.com, or follow the Company on Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are
made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking
statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future
performance. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press
release which are not strictly historical, including, without
limitation, the Company’s plans and expectations related to the
development, engineering, growing and harvesting of Camelina,
including PHA yield goals, and the Company’s expectations related
to the economic opportunity of Camelina and PHA bioplastics,
constitute forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking
statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
anticipated, including the risks and uncertainties detailed in
Yield10 Bioscience's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Yield10 assumes no obligation to update any
forward-looking information contained in this press release or with
respect to the matters described herein.
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(617) 682-4693, LBrum@yield10bio.com
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