YIELD10 BIOSCIENCE, INC. (NASDAQ:YTEN) Files An 8-K Other Events
Item 8.01. Other Events
corporation (the Company), issued a press release announcing that
the Companys novel C4001 trait (a global regulatory gene or
transcription factor) has been shown to significantly increase
plant biomass yield in switchgrass. The Company plans to evaluate
C4001-like traits in forage crops and major commercial crops
including corn and rice. A copy of the press release is attached
hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
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Press Release dated June 27, 2017.
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YIELD10 BIOSCIENCE, INC. ExhibitEX-99.1 2 yten-20170627_exhibit991.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit Yield10 Bioscience to Report Results Showing that Trait C4001 Produces Significant Increases in Plant Yield —CSO Dr. Kristi Snell to Present Results Today at the Plant Biology 2017 Conference WOBURN,…To view the full exhibit click here About YIELD10 BIOSCIENCE, INC. (NASDAQ:YTEN)
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., formerly Metabolix, Inc., is an agricultural bioscience company. The Company is focused on developing disruptive technologies for step-change improvements in crop yield for food and feed crops to enhance global food security. By working on new approaches to improve fundamental elements of plant photosynthetic efficiency and optimizing carbon metabolism to direct more carbon to seed production, the Company is advancing several yield traits it has developed in crops, such as Camelina, canola, soybean and corn. The Company concentrates on technologies that enables it to improve carbon dioxide fixation efficiency in photosynthesis and its direction to and conversion into plant matter. The Company has an additional agricultural science facility with greenhouses in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
