Metabolix launched Yield10 Bioscience late last year as a way to resource our crop science activity separately from our specialty biopolymers business. Yield10 is focused on global food security, as food production must be increased by an estimated 70% in the next 35 years to feed the growing global population which is expected to increase from 7 to 9.6 billion by 2050. Recent studies show that traditional crop breeding is unlikely to solve this problem. Rather, our Yield10 team believes technologies which enable simultaneous changes in complex gene systems to achieve step changes in seed yield are required. New data from our lead yield technologies provide strong support for this view. Continue reading
Yield10: Developing and Commercializing Innovations in Crop Science
Metabolix announced the launch of Yield10 Bioscience to develop and commercialize innovations in crop science. The focus is to develop proprietary, breakthrough technologies to improve yield in major food crops based on Yield10’s “T3 Platform Technology”. Continue reading
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Patents: A Window into Innovation
Metabolix was recently granted or allowed six patents covering technology related to each of our key areas of biopolymers, biobased industrial chemicals and crop-based technologies. Among those granted was patent US 8,487,159, issued on July 16 titled “Production of Polyhydroxybutryrate in Switchgrass.” The patent describes a genetic construct consisting of 3 genes for making PHB, a biopolymer naturally produced in some bacteria as a carbon and energy storage molecule. The patent also describes the invention of switchgrass plants which produce at least 1% dry weight PHB. Continue reading
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