Research & development

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Corporate Environmental Initiative

Working with the Danforth Center

The St Louis-based Danforth Center is a not-for-profit research institute with a global vision to improve the human condition through advanced understanding and engineering of plants. This includes enhancing plants’ nutritional content, reducing reliance on agrochemicals and developing alternatives to non-renewable fuels and industrial materials.

The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute will focus specifically on renewable fuels, and the Taylor family’s donation has already enabled the Danforth Center to leverage further grants. Together, these funds will finance the doubling in size of the Center’s greenhouse, the development of a new laboratory and the employment of a director and two other scientists. Up to 10 scientists already employed at the Center will also work on renewable fuel research projects.

Interview with Dr. Roger N. Beachy, President of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center