Yield10 Bioscience announces addition of camelina to Interline® herbicide label

Yield10 Bioscience Inc. announced May 23 that UPL Ltd. has received U.S. EPA approval to amend the label language of Interline® Herbicide to include the oilseed camelina sativa.

This approval allows Yield10’s glufosinate-tolerant camelina to be sprayed with Interline®, a glufosinate-containing herbicide, providing farmers with a method to control broad-leaf weeds during camelina field production.

Interline is marketed and sold by UPL, a global provider of agricultural solutions.

Camelina, a member of the Brassicaceae plant family, is available in both spring and cold-tolerant winter varieties.

Use of the camelina crop is currently ramping up commercially in North America as a potential source of feedstock oil for the biofuel industry.

Yield10 is also progressing commercial development of camelina as a potential platform crop for producing new seed products including engineered omega-3 oils for use in human nutrition, animal feed and aquaculture.

“We appreciate the efforts of the UPL team to add camelina to the Interline herbicide label,” said Kristi Snell, Yield10’s chief science officer and vice president of research.

“Having methods to control broad-leaf weeds is essential to enabling the large-scale adoption of camelina as a commercial crop in North America,” Snell added. “Yield10 has engineered both spring and winter varieties of camelina for glufosinate tolerance. We anticipate that Interline will give camelina farmers access to a widely used herbicide solution that supports farm profitability and crop health.”

USDA-APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services determined in November that Yield10’s glufosinate-tolerant camelina is not subject to regulation under 7 CFR part 340 regulations after the company submitted a request for regulatory-status review under the SECURE Rule.

This ruling allows Yield10’s glufosinate-tolerant varieties to be grown and bred in the United States.

The recent EPA label amendment allows growers to spray Interline on glufosinate-tolerant camelina varieties in the U.S. under state registrations.