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By the 1970s, numbers had drastically declined and a captive breeding program was initiated in 1977 with one adult pair and nine chicks taken from the wild.

There are almost eighty super-rice varieties, such as Xieyou9308, that have been successfully bred and commercially released to rice farmers since the super-rice breeding program was initiated by the Chinese government in 1996 [ 1].

Hybrid rice breeding programs were initiated in China in 1964 based on a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system.

Several breeding programs were initiated to incorporate stay-green QTL in advanced breeding lines [ 50, 55].

Breeding methods for these species have remained largely unchanged since the first empirical breeding programs were initiated.

Again, this situation is somewhat different from that of reintroducing captive-reared salmonids in an attempt to generate self-sustaining populations into formerly occupied habitats – it more typifies the situation where a captive-breeding program is initiated to supplement a rapidly declining population.

Each breeding program was simulated with and without genomic selection.

As part of the conservation efforts, a breeding-in-captivity program was initiated in 1992 at a Swedish breeding center for endangered species ("The Nordic Ark").

A pilot marker-assisted backcross selection program was initiated in collaboration with the Colombian national breeding program Fedearroz, which comprised the introgression of the Fd2000 and Fd50 QTL in two elite lines adapted to Colombian growing conditions.

In 1983, a program was initiated by the American Chestnut Foundation [ 10] to introgress genes from blight-resistant Asian chestnut species into American chestnut via backcross breeding [ 11].

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