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For example, in Mexico, poverty mapping was found to enhance the targeting of maize crop breeding efforts to poor rural communities in less favorable and remote areas (Bellon et al. 2005).

Genetic selections for the genus have largely concentrated on traits desirable to the horticultural and landscaping industry; there have been few focused breeding efforts targeting traits that would enhance the potential of Miscanthus as a perennial bioenergy feedstock.

Although natural selection acts on both types of variants, crop breeding efforts primarily target minor variants such as SNPs, because their inheritance patterns are better understood and, therefore, more efficiently manipulated, and because minor variants code for single potential changes in amino acids that may or may not result in a functional change in the coded protein.

These findings clarify the history of European and Asian pears and have implications for breeding efforts.

Finally, we review the breeding efforts for virus resistance, based on conventional selection and genetic engineering.

Moreover, this chapter discusses breeding efforts regarding heavy metals in oilseed crops.

The illness kills up to 70% of the cats in captivity and has frustrated breeding efforts.

Conservationists say too many collisions with planes or decapitations by wires could cripple breeding efforts.

Breeding efforts expanded in June 2001 with the whooping crane reintroduction project.

"We are very pleased to receive this expanded list of cultivars for our research and breeding efforts," said Caddie.

Polymorphism within L. sativa is most pertinent to breeding efforts.