USDA-APHIS greenlights Yield10 Bioscience glufosinate tolerant camelina can be grown and bred in US

In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience announced that USDA-APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services has determined that Yield10’s glufosinate tolerant Camelina sativa may be grown and bred in the United States. Yield10 submitted a Request for Regulatory Status Review to the BRS under the SECURE Rule in June 2022 for glufosinate tolerant Camelina. The response from USDA-APHIS means that the agency does not consider the modified Camelina plant to be an increased plant pest risk as compared to unmodified Camelina and is therefore not subject to regulation under 7 CFR part 340 regulations. Yield10’s submission along with the USDA-APHIS BRS response is posted on the USDA’s website.