Cibus Confirms Its Herbicide Tolerance Trait Shows Increased Tolerance To A Novel Herbicide For Weed Control In Canola; Expects To Initiate Seed Bulk Up For Testing In Fields In 2025

The greenhouse results represent an important success milestone in the development of its second-generation of HT2 edited Canola

Cibus expects to initiate seed bulk up for testing in fields in 2025

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cibus, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBUS), a leading agricultural technology company that develops and licenses plant traits to seed companies for royalties, today announced that its next generation edits for herbicide tolerance (HT2) in Canola have shown increased tolerance to the herbicide in greenhouse testing. With the achievement of this milestone, seed from these edited plants will be utilized to initiate larger scale field testing in the 2025 season. Reaching this critical milestone is another demonstration of complex editing in Canola by Cibus leading to improved trait performance.

HT2 represents an advanced multi-crop herbicide resistant trait within Cibus’ pipeline, building upon the Company’s previously reported work in herbicide tolerant traits such as its developed HT1 and HT3 traits in rice. Cibus believes that its HT2 trait will translate to other crops like Soybean. This development of a novel herbicide tolerance solution utilizing Cibus’ HT2 trait is important as many weeds that impact crop production are becoming resistant to widely used conventional herbicides. A new trait such as HT2 for major crops like Canola has the potential to provide farmers with additional herbicide options to address difficult weeds. Growers often require multiple herbicides applied before and after planting of the crop, and traits like HT2 also have the potential to provide improved weed control with fewer herbicide applications.