Yield10 Bioscience Chief Science Officer Dr. Kristi Snell to Highlight Unique Aspects of the Company’s GRAIN Technology Pla...
June 24 2019 - 8:30AM
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:YTEN), an agricultural bioscience
company which uses its “Trait Factory” to develop high value seed
traits for the agriculture and food industries, today announced
that Kristi Snell, Ph.D., Yield10’s chief science officer, will
present at the 3rd Precision CRISPR & NBT AgBio Congress which
is being held June 24-26 in San Diego, California.
Dr. Snell will present a talk entitled “Exploring Novel
Approaches for Gene Selection and Trait Validation in Crops.” The
presentation will be part of the “Novel Approaches Beyond Genomics
to Improve Yield, Productivity and Resistance” session which is
scheduled from 11:10 am to 12:40 pm local time on June 26.
In her presentation, Dr. Snell will discuss the components of
Yield10’s proprietary GRAIN (Gene Ranking Artificial Intelligence
Network) platform, highlighting recent advancements. GRAIN
integrates advanced metabolic flux modeling with transcriptome
network analysis to enable researchers to make predictions about
which biochemical reactions in a plant are most likely to achieve
targeted performance improvements and identify key regulatory genes
to modify to achieve the trait of interest. This approach is
leading to the identification of novel targets and combinations of
targets for increasing performance in crops.
Dr. Snell will describe several traits that Yield10 has
identified using GRAIN and highlight a case study demonstrating the
use of the GRAIN platform to identify and rank potential regulatory
genes predicted to affect yield and/or oil content in an oilseed
crop. In the case study, the modeling was used to generate a
ranked list of transcription factors that may impact oil and/or
seed yield using expression data from the oilseed crop Camelina
sativa. Several of the highest ranked targets generated by the
model are known regulators of seed oil content or seed yield,
validating the use of the model to identify potentially high value
targets. In addition, the model generated and ranked several novel
targets, currently uncharacterized plant genes that may represent
new leads and intellectual property white space. Researchers at
Yield10 believe this approach for new trait discovery can be
applied to the key commercial crops including corn, soybean, and
canola, as well as numerous other crops where genomic information
is available.
“Our presentation highlights exciting advances we have made
developing our GRAIN technology platform to identify high-value
novel gene targets to improve crop performance,” said Kristi Snell,
Ph.D., chief science officer of Yield10 Bioscience. “We are
currently also developing ways to utilize our GRAIN platform to
identify novel targets for improving compositional traits in crops,
where improving oil or protein content would enhance the
nutritional profile of the crop. We envision that our approach
utilizing our GRAIN platform may provide the basis for forming
collaborations with agricultural industry leaders for crops of
commercial interest.”
Learn more about the conference at the CRISPR & NTB AgBio
Congress 2019 website. On June 26, a copy of Dr. Snell’s slide deck
will be available on the Yield10 Bioscience investor relations
website.
About Yield10
Bioscience
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is an agricultural bioscience company
which uses its “Trait Factory” to develop high value seed traits
for the agriculture and food industries to achieve step-change
improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security. Yield10
has an extensive track record of innovation based around optimizing
the flow of carbon in living systems. The “Trait Factory” has two
components: the “GRAIN” computational modeling platform, which is
used to identify specific gene changes designed to improve crop
performance, and the deployment of those changes into crops using
genome-editing or traditional agricultural biotechnology
approaches. The purpose of the “Trait Factory” is to engineer
precise alterations to gene activity and the flow of carbon in
plants to produce higher yields with lower inputs of land, water or
fertilizer. Yield10 is advancing several yield traits it has
developed in crops such as canola, soybean, rice, wheat and corn.
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.
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Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
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release which are not strictly historical, including, without
limitation, the ability of the GRAIN platform to identify novel
targets and combinations of targets that will increase performance
in crops and to apply this approach to key commercial crops
including corn, soybean, and canola, as well as numerous other
crops where genomic information is available, and the ability of
the platform to provide the basis for forming collaborations with
agricultural industry leaders for crops of commercial
interest, constitute forward-looking statements.
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