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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.