Ceres

Ceres is a biotechnology company that develops and markets low-carbon, non-food grasses for advanced biofuels and bio power.

Ceres, Inc. (Ceres) is an agricultural biotechnology company selling seeds to produce renewable biomass feedstocks. The Company’s large-scale commercial products are sweet sorghum varieties that can be used as a drop-in feedstock to extend the operating season of Brazilian sugarcane-to-ethanol mills. Its products include sweet sorghum, high biomass sorghum, switchgrass, miscanthus and row crops. Its energy crops can also be used for the production of 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 scale electric power can also be generated from the biomass feedstocks grown from its seeds. Ceres has sold switchgrass and high biomass sorghum seeds in the United States under its Blade Energy Crops (Blade) brand. In January 2010, the Company incorporated a subsidiary, Ceres Sementes do Brasil Ltda.