The company describes JMax100 as the first elite cultivar developed through its JMax Jatropha Optimization Platform.

The platform provides growers and plantation developers with access to the sequenced genome and advanced biotech and synthetic biology tools to develop cultivars specifically optimized for their unique growing conditions.

"JMax 100 is the tip of the iceberg in the development of Jatropha as a renewable energy crop," says Kirk Haney, chief executive of SG