We are an agricultural biotechnology company selling seeds for producing renewable bioenergy feedstocks that can enable the large-scale replacement of petroleum and other fossil fuels. We use a combination of advanced plant breeding and biotechnology to develop new traits and improved energy crop varieties that we believe address the limitations of first-generation bioenergy feedstocks, increase biomass productivity, reduce crop inputs and improve cultivation on marginal land. Since our traits may benefit row crop production, we are also evaluating many of our traits in corn, soybean, rice and wheat.
We sell seeds of dedicated energy crops. Our first large-scale commercial seed products are proprietary sweet sorghum hybrids that can be used to extend the operating season of Brazilian sugarcane-to-ethanol mills. Elsewhere, we also market improved hybrids of high-biomass sorghum and varieties of switchgrass that can be used for the production of second-generation biofuels and bio-based chemicals as well as utility-scale electric power generation.
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