Cibus, Inc. announced that it has entered into a US Development Agreement with Loveland Products Inc. Cibus has agreed to collaborate with Loveland Products to provide traits into Loveland?s elite rice seed genetics. Under the terms of the agreement Loveland and Cibus will work toward commercializing herbicide tolerance in rice with a focus on the southern US market, where demand for novel approaches in weed control is most prevalent. A key element of Cibus?

technology breakthrough is its High Throughput Breeding Process (referred to as the Trait Machine? system). The Trait Machine process is a crop specific application of Cibus?

patented Rapid Trait Development System? (RTDS®). The proprietary technologies in RTDS integrate crop specific cell biology platforms with a series of gene editing technologies to enable a system of end-to-end crop specific precision breeding.

It is the core technology platform for Cibus? Trait Machine: the first standardized end-to-end semi-automated crop specific gene editing system that directly edits a seed company?s elite germplasm. Each Trait Machine process requires a crop specific cell biology platform that enables Cibus to edit a single cell from a customers?

elite germplasm and grow that edited cell into a plant with the Cibus edits. Cibus has Trait Machine platforms developed for canola and rice and has already begun transferring their elite germplasm with Cibus edits back to customers. The traits from Cibus?

RTDS-based High Throughput Breeding System are indistinguishable from traits developed using conventional breeding or from nature. RTDS does not integrate any foreign DNA or transgenes. Under the European Commission current proposals, it is expected that products from Cibus?

RTDS gene editing platform such as its pod shatter reduction trait and Sclerotinia resistance traits for Canola and Winter Oilseed Rape would be considered ?Conventional-like'. Cibus believes that RTDS and the Trait Machine process represent the technological breakthrough in plant breeding that is the ultimate promise of plant gene editing: High Throughput Gene Editing Systems operating as an extension of seed company breeding programs.