FUTUREAGRICULTURE

FutureAgriculture aims to boost agricultural productivity by designing and engineering plants that directly overcome the deficits of natural photorespiration and that support higher photosynthetic rate and yield. The implementation of novel synthetic photorespiration bypass routes in plants is expected to increase plant growth rate and biomass yield under various environmental conditions... FutureAgriculture aims to engineer novel metabolic routes to replace photorespiration. These routes will avoid the release of CO 2 and will operate at higher energetic efficiency. As such these photorespiration bypass routes will support substantially higher carbon fixation and photosynthetic efficiency. Specifically, the suggested synthetic routes are expected to have a signi ficant advantage over their natural counterpart both under strong illumination, where growth is mainly limi ted by the activity of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham Cycle, and under low light, where growth is limited by the energetic..

Primary location: Potsdam Germany