The company was selected for a $5m grant by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) programme, which handed out $151m to 37 projects across a range of technologies.
Ceres, based in Thousand Oaks, California, intends to begin expanded experiments next month on crops including switchgrass, sorghum and miscanthus. It aims to develop advanced traits in crops that could increase yields as much as 40% and require less fertilizer.
