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The objective of a drought-tolerance breeding program is to select varieties that outperform currently available varieties in the target population of environments (TPE).

We thus concluded that GSI is an efficient choice when the purpose of a breeding program is to select individuals using GS.

One of the key ways in which GS can be used in a maize breeding program is to improve source populations from which candidate inbred lines can be predicted and selected as parents for the next generation; in this manner, genetic gains in a closed multi-parent population derived from three or more elite lines are maximized.

The end objective of this approach, as for any breeding program, is to effectively and efficiently disseminate the superior genetics into the commercial population.

Another way to reduce genotyping costs in a family-based breeding program is to estimate genomic breeding values separately within each family [ 7].

An important goal of Zebu breeding programs is to improve reproductive performance.

Therefore, a major goal of switchgrass breeding programs is to identify and select for genotypes with improved tolerance to drought stress [ 6].

The main goal of most fruit breeding programs is to identify the best performing individuals (or genotypes) as potential commercial cultivars, and the secondary goal is to identify genotypes that can be used as parents in future crosses.

Once common, the species is now endangered and a captive breeding program is under way to save the snail from extinction.

All in all, he maintains that the Florida facility is a safe and healthy environment for the circus's herd of 42 Asian elephants, and its breeding program is a way to preserve the Asian elephants in North America.

The decision by SeaWorld to end its captive breeding program is worthy of celebration.