About Terasol LABS

Terasol LABS is a leading plant biotechnology company focused on the development of biodiesel crops. Our primary goal is to discover and develop high yielding crops that generate the most bio-energy per hectare of land. We are currently working with jatropha, castor and sweet sorghum.

• We have identified and developed new elite varieties of feedstock optimized for production under different agro-climatic conditions, economic and social factors.
• We provide large quantities of the highest quality planting materials of elite varieties through pure line selections, hybrids, clonal selections and tissue culture propagation for nursery development and for setting up larger plantation initiatives.
• We are developing processes to create high value uses of feedstock and biodiesel production byproducts such as jatropha and castor cake.

At Terasol LABS, we have a strong culture of innovation and development. We have developed one of the largest germplasm banks for jatropha. We have worked to identify and cultivate accessions of the jatropha crop that correspond with various global agro-climatic conditions. We have done so through close collaborations with plantations and research centers across Brazil and India. We have also developed clonal propagation of jatropha from global selections through our advanced techniques of plant tissue culture development. We produce jatropha plantlets through axillary shoot proliferation and direct organogenesis. Through the use of tissue culture we are further developing our germplasm bank and developing hybrids and clonal improvements.