- CEO
- Oliver P. Peoples
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: agricultural
- Address
- Woburn United States
- IPO Date
- Nov 10, 2006
- Business
- Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is an agricultural bioscience company focused on developing proprietary genetic traits and elite seed varieties of Camelina sativa for sustainable crop production, renewable biofuels, and nutritional applications. The company develops and offers specialized agricultural products and technologies structured across several key categories: Camelina Seed Products, consisting of proprietary spring and winter Camelina sativa seed varieties bred for enhanced seed yield, accelerated crop establishment, and cold tolerance; Biofuel Feedstock Oils, comprising low-carbon-intensity seed oils engineered as renewable feedstocks for the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel; Omega-3 Nutritional Oils, encompassing genetically engineered Camelina lines producing eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) fatty acids designed as sustainable, land-based alternatives to ocean-harvested fish oil for the aquaculture feed, pet nutrition, and human dietary supplement industries; Agronomic and Herbicide Tolerance Traits, providing advanced gene edits and stacked traits conferring resistance to broadleaf and grass herbicides, including glufosinate, to facilitate large-scale commercial weed management; Plant-Based Biomaterials, featuring research and development of Camelina engineered to co-produce polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) bioplastics directly in seed; and Trait Discovery and Licensing Services, utilizing the proprietary Gene Ranking Artificial Intelligence Network (GRAIN) computational discovery platform and Trait Factory to identify, validate, and out-license yield-enhancing and carbon-fixation gene targets for third-party commercial crops including canola, soybean, and corn. Founded in 1992 as Metabolix, Inc. and rebranded to Yield10 Bioscience in 2017, the company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, with field trial operations and grower contracting programs historically spanning North America and research collaborations in the United Kingdom. In recent major developments, the company secured an exclusive global commercial license from Rothamsted Research in 2024 for its omega-3 EPA and DHA Camelina technology, transitioned its public listing from Nasdaq to the OTC Markets under the ticker YTENQ, initiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in December 2024, and completed an asset purchase transaction in January 2025 whereby Nufarm Limited acquired substantially all of Yield10's intellectual property, proprietary germplasm, and Camelina research and development assets.