Ceres

Ceres is an agricultural biotechnology company that sells seeds for the production of renewable biomass feedstocks. The company's major commercial product is sweet sorghum varieties, which can be used as a drop-in feedstock to extend the operating season of sugarcane-ethanol mills in Brazil. Its products include sweet sorghum, high-biomass sorghum, switchgrass, miscanthus, and row crops. Its energy crops can also be used to produce second-generation biofuels and bio-based chemicals, including cellulosic ethanol, butanol, jet fuel, diesel-like molecules, and gasoline-like molecules from non-food biomass. Baseload utility power can also be generated from the biomass feedstock grown from its seeds. Ceres markets switchgrass and high-biomass sorghum seeds in the United States under its Blade Energy Crops (Blade) brand. In January 2010, the company established its subsidiary, Ceres Sementes do Brasil Ltda.