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Press Releases

May 2, 2012
Arcadia Biosciences Receives Chinese Patent for Key Nitrogen Use Efficiency Technology
April 2, 2012
Arcadia Biosciences Takes Next Step to Enable Farmers to Receive Carbon Credits for Reduced Nitrogen Fertilizer Use
February 28, 2012
Arcadia Biosciences and Bioceres Form Verdeca, an Agricultural Technology Joint Venture
February 16, 2012
Arcadia Biosciences and United States Sugar Corporation Enter Into Agreement to Develop Nitrogen Use Efficient and Water Efficient Sugar Cane
January 31, 2012
Arcadia Recieves $4.5 Million Grant from USAID to Develop Salt-Tolerant Rice and Gather Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from Nitrogen Efficient Crops
November 8, 2011
Arcadia Biosciences Nominated For Best Novel Agricultural Technology At Agrow Awards For Its Nitrogen Use Efficiency Technology
October 31, 2011
Arcadia Biosciences and the South African Sugarcane Research Institute to Develop Nitrogen Use Efficient Sugarcane
October 19, 2011
Arcadia Receives $950,000 Department of Energy ARPA-E Grant for Development of Plants Engineered to Replace Oil
September 20, 2011
Arcadia Biosciences Named By AlwaysOn To GoingGreen Global 200
June 24, 2011
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Appointments to the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture
March 18, 2011
Arcadia Biosciences And SESVanderHave To Develop Water Efficient Sugar Beets
March 9, 2011
Arcadia Receives Grant Worth $1.02 Million From The US National Institutes For Health To Develop Resistant Starch-Enhanced Wheat
February 9, 2011
Arcadia Biosciences and Vilmorin to Develop Water Efficient Wheat
November 2, 2010
Arcadia Biosciences Adds Former USAID Executive to Management Team
October 26, 2010
Arcadia Biosciences and Advanta to Develop Water Efficient Sorghum
October 19, 2010
Arcadia Biosciences Receives Health Canada Clearance to Sell SONOVA™ 400 Natural Health Products in Canada
October 13, 2010
Arcadia Biosciences Expands Nutrition Business Management Team, Adds Experienced Nutrition Executive
May 3, 2010
Vilmorin Makes Equity Investment in Arcadia Biosciences; Announces Formation of North American Wheat Joint Venture
November 20, 2009
Arcadia Biosciences and Vilmorin Announce Strategic Alliance to Develop and Market Nitrogen Use Efficient Wheat
April 9, 2009
Arcadia Biosciences and Advanta to Develop Salt Tolerant Sorghum
January 7, 2009
Arcadia Biosciences Licenses Herbicide-Tolerant Wheat Technology and Plant Material to Targeted Growth, INC.
December 10, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences and the African Agricultural Technology Foundation Enter into Agreement for Development of Improved African Rice
December 2, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences Receives $3.6 Million USAID Grant to Develop Improved Crops in India
October 30, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences and Semillas Fito Research and commercial development agreement for extended shelf-life tomatoes
October 28, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences Announces $15 Million Funding to Support Commercial Product Development and Expansion of Agricultural Biotechnology Offerings
October 20, 2008
Arcadia Names Wendy Neal as Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
September 10, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences Named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by the Tech Museum of Innovation
June 5, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences and ScottsMiracle-Gro to Develop Nitrogen Use Efficient Grass
April 24, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences Contributes Technology License to the African Agricultural Technology Foundation to Develop Nitrogen Efficient and Salt Tolerant African Rice
April 14, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences and MAHYCO Announce Multi-Crop, Multi-Technology Licensing Agreement
March 12, 2008
DuPont and Arcadia Biosciences Collaborate to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Corn
March 12, 2008
DuPont and Arcadia Biosciences Collaborate to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Corn
February 22, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences and Bioriginal Food and Science Corp. Enter Strategic Alliance to Market High GLA Safflower Oil
December 10, 2007
Arcadia Biosciences Reports Progress in Drought-Tolerance Crop Development
October 30, 2007
Arcadia Biosciences' GLA-enriched Safflower Oil Offers Consumers A Practical Way To Benefit From Gamma Linolenic Acid
October 10, 2007
Arcadia Biosciences and Australian Research Organizations Enter Research and Commercial License Agreement for Development of Nitrogen Use Efficient Wheat
May 3, 2007
Arcadia Biosciences and Chinese Province Agree to Establish Methods for Carbon Credit Trading Based on Nitrogen use Efficient Rice
April 26, 2007
Arcadia Biosciences And SESVanderHave Seeds Enter Research And Commercial License Agreement For Development Of Nitrogen Use Efficient Sugar Beets
April 3, 2007
Development of Commercial Nitrogen Use Efficient Canola Varieties Shows Early Development Success
October 2, 2006
Arcadia Biosciences Licenses Corn and Rice Transformation Technology From Japan Tobacco
September 21, 2006
Technology to Battle "Dead Zones" Closer to Reality
August 30, 2006
Arcadia Biosciences Appoints Mark Wong to its Board of Directors
April 20, 2006
Arcadia has achieved research results demonstrating 65 percent gamma linolenic acid (GLA) in the oil from safflower seeds. These high levels of GLA hold promise of providing consumers with a more cost-effective and convenient source of the health-promotin
March 22, 2006
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. and Cal/West Seeds enter into agreement to develop GLA Safflower
November 14, 2005
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. Achieves high levels of GLA in Safflower
October 31, 2005
Arcadia Biosciences receives NIH research grant to develop soybean varieties with desired levels of isoflavones
October 5, 2005
Arcadia Biosciences and Washington State University receive NIH Grant to research wheat with reduced celiac disease-causing protein
September 20, 2005
Arcadia Biosciences, Monsanto Company announce commercial licensing deal for Nitrogen Use Efficiency Technology in canola
September 14, 2005
U.S. Department of Defense to pay Arcadia Biosciences $2.9 million for development of longer-lasting tomatoes and lettuce
August 10, 2005
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. Names Chief Science Officer
June 16, 2005
Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. Acquires Anawah, Inc.
September 29, 2004
Don Emlay to Lead Arcadia's Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Initiatives
June 1, 2004
Arcadia Biosciences Enters into Funded Agreement with SemBioSys to Support Its Program for GLA Safflower
March 22, 2004
Arcadia Biosciences Licenses Proprietary Salt-Tolerance Gene Portfolio to Cal/West Seeds for Use in Alfalfa

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Media Coverage

April 11, 2012
Company Has Nitrogen-Efficient Crops at Commercial Phase (Ag Professional)
April 6, 2012
ACPFG and CSIRO join forces with Vilmorin & Cie to commercialize Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) wheat in Australia (Thomson Reuters)
March 27, 2012
Sewing the seeds of a low carbon future (CNN)
February 28, 2012
Argentina JV aims to break big biotech's grip on transgenic soy (Dow Jones News Service)
October 14, 2011
Don’t Smoke That Fuel: ARPA-E funds energy research in tobacco, turpentines, camelina (Biofuels Digest)
July 27, 2011
Biotech food for a warming planet (Marc Gunther blog)
February 1, 2011
Alternative Agriculture (The Scientist)
July 28, 2010
An Underground Revolution (Nature)
April 21, 2010
EPA Earth Day: It’s My Environment!
February 16, 2010
Dramatic Changes in Agriculture Needed as World Warms and Grows (ScienceDaily)
February 11, 2010
Radically Rethinking Agriculture for the 21st Century (Science Magazine)
February 10, 2010
Hype or hysteria: A rational policy on GM food? (Checkbiotech.org)
January 21, 2010
Jimmy’s Global Harvest – USA (BBC 2)
January 18, 2010
Firms Share NDI Notification Tips And Experts Reveal Common Pitfalls (The Tan Sheet)
November 13, 2009
The New NUE Thing (The Economist)
June 18, 2009
Cropping Hunger and Climate Change (GOOD)
June 11, 2009
Ethical man takes his crusade to California (BBC)
March 24, 2009
Is the green movement part of the problem? (BBC)
January 23, 2009
Seed Today Podcast with Arcadia Biosciences President/CEO Eric Rey: Non-GM Herbicide Tolerant Wheat (SeedToday.com)
November 12, 2008
Arcadia Biosciences honored as a 2008 Environment Award Laureate for its Nitrogen Use Efficiency technology (TechAwards.org)
November 12, 2008
NorCal Firm Looks To Change How Crops Are Grown (CBS 5)
October 31, 2008
Arcadia Lines up Funds for Safflower Venture (The Sacramento Bee)
October 23, 2008
Less Water, More Biotech: Drought Resistance Is the Goal, But Methods Differ (New York Times)
October 1, 2008
Next Green - Seed Money (Fast Company)
August 15, 2008
Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread (Scientific American)
August 1, 2008
Dry Fields with Great Yields (Science Notes)
June 1, 2008
Superefficient Frankencrops Could Put a Real Dent in Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Wired)
May 29, 2008
Environment: All Things Considered (National Public Radio)
March 26, 2008
The Seeds of Aridity: Crops for a Parched World (International Herald Tribune)
February 17, 2008
'Green' Rice on Menu: Farmers Could Profit from Carbon Offsets (The Sacramento Bee)
January 8, 2008
Biotech Firm Plans to Fund GM Rice Crops With Carbon Credits (The Guardian)
January 5, 2008
50 People Who Could Save the Planet (The Guardian)
January 5, 2008
Could New GM Crops Please the Greens? (New Scientist)
December 1, 2007
The "environmentally-friendly" genetically modified of Arcadia Biosciences (Biofutur)
October 29, 2007
Reining In Ripening: Researchers are learning to control key biochemical processes that affect the quality of fruits and vegetables (Chemical & Engineering News)
October 9, 2007
In China, a Plan to Turn Rice into Carbon Credits (Wall Street Journal)
May 4, 2007
Modified rice called nice for environment (San Francisco Chronicle)
March 7, 2007
Arcadia Biosciences Agreed With the Government of the Ningxia Hui Chinese Autonomous Region (Ningxia) to Establish the Groundwork for a “Carbon Credit” Methodology Applicable to Rice Cultivation. (La Correspondance Economiqu
October 31, 2006
Seed Firms Bolster Crops Using Traits of Distant Relatives (Wall Street Journal)
June 1, 2006
GLA oils: A study on consumer purchasing behaviors (AOCS publication: Inform)
September 20, 2005
Recruiting Stronger Veggies. (The Sacramento Bee)
May 1, 2005
GLA: Uses and new sources (AOCS publication: Inform)
April 14, 2005
Tilling® moves beyond functional genomics into crop improvement. (National Library of Medicine)
January 23, 2005
A reverse genetic, nontransgenic approach to wheat crop improvement by TILLING®. (Nature Biotechnology)
May 27, 2004
"Dead zones" threaten fisheries. (The Christian Science Monitor)
March 23, 2004
Alfalfa partnership sprouts to develop salt-tolerant crop. (The Sacramento Bee)
June 11, 2001
Engineering salt-tolerant Brassica plants: Characterization of yield and seed-oil quality in transgenic plants with increased vacuolar sodium accumulation. (Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)

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Reducing Nitrogen
Usage

Arcadia Biosciences has conducted field trials in five growing seasons. In each field trial, Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) canola demonstrated that it can achieve high yields using significantly less nitrogen fertilizer than conventional varieties. In the chart above, note that NUE canola yielded 2800 lb/ac using two-thirds less nitrogen fertilizer than the conventional variety needed to generate the same yield.