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For a new green revolution to feed the continually increasing population, agriculture productivity will have to be significantly improved. Photorespiration represents a big challenge in this respect, because it dissipates energy and leads to the futile loss of CO2, thereby limiting plant growth yield. The EU-funded FET Open project FutureAgriculture aims to implement an efficient metabolic bypass for photorespiration to increase the photosynthetic efficiency of many cultivated crops, including rice, wheat, barley, oat, soybean, cotton and potato.

Background

Human population keeps increasing at a staggering rate. Feeding 10-15 billion people at the year 2100 is a challenging task that will only be met by drastic measures to increase agricultural productivity.

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Our Goal

We aim at boosting agricultural productivity by designing and engineering novel routes that overcome the inefficiencies of natural photorespiration and support higher photosynthetic rate.

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What We Do

We integrate diverse skills in computational biology, chemistry, microbiology, and plant physiology, for the design of optimized metabolic pathways and their implementations in plants.

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Leading research institutions, biotechnological companies and SMEs compose the project consortium, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.

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Transforming the future of agriculture through synthetic photorespiration

We aim to design and engineer synthetic photorespiration bypass routes that directly tackle the deficits and inefficiencies of natural photorespiration. The introduction of these synthetic pathways into plants will support higher photosynthetic rate and yield.

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    • This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 FET Programme under the grant agreement No 686330 (FET Open)

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