Yield10 Bioscience Announces Start of Field Tests of Winter Camelina Varieties
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:YTEN), an agricultural bioscience company, today announced that it has begun field testing to evaluate the emergence and agronomics of winter Camelina sativa varieties.
Key Points:
- WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:YTEN), an agricultural bioscience company, today announced that it has begun field testing to evaluate the emergence and agronomics of winter Camelina sativa varieties.
- Having previously evaluated the Camelina sativa winter varieties in 2019/2020 , Yield10 continues to pursue commercial efforts to leverage its technology in the potential high growth cash cover crop market.
- The objectives of the study are to determine the seed and oil yield potential of winter Camelina varieties, and to scale up certain plant lines to support conducting larger studies.
- The field tests will evaluate the best performing wild-type and doubled haploid lines from the 2019/2020 winter season.