The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels is a research unit within the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, and was established in 2007. The mission of the Enterprise Institute is to develop and apply technologies to enhance the potential of oilseed crops, algae, and bioenergy grasses as sources of sustainable bioenergy.
Scientists at the Institute conduct high-risk research with the potential to alter current paradigms for bioenergy crops. Technologies are developed to improve bioenergy grasses and the production of plant and algal-based oils with the ultimate goal of production at commercial scale.