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Ceres: Plant traits in a hurry

February 16, 1999 8:00 AM UTC

Ceres Inc. has maintained a low profile since its founding in 1997 as it stockpiles intellectual property in the area of marketable plant traits. The company believes that agricultural biotechnology is witnessing a second window of opportunity in plant genetics that will last only as long as genomes for important crop plants remain unsequenced and unpatented.

As it solidifies its position in this race, Ceres is identifying gene functions and selecting desirable traits that it plans to license on an exclusive basis to interested companies or eventually take forward itself to the marketplace...