Yield10 Bioscience Announces that the Plant Biosafety Office of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has Cleared Genome-edited E3902 Camelina for Planting in Canada

WOBURN, Mass., March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. (Nasdaq:YTEN) (“Yield10” or the “Company”), an agricultural bioscience company, today reported that the Plant Biosafety Office (“PBO”) of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (“CFIA”) recently reviewed information on the Company’s E3902 Camelina sativa (“Camelina”) and determined that E3902 is not a Plant with Novel Trait (PNT) and is not subject to a pre-market notification under Part V of the Seeds Regulations. Yield10’s E3902 Camelina combines genome edits in three proprietary genetic traits, C3008a, C3008b and C3009, that result in an increase in oil production by five percent and produce a lighter seed coat color as compared to the parental Camelina line. E3902 Camelina remains subject to other applicable requirements of the Seeds Act and Regulations in Canada.