Design of sustainable breeding programs in developed countries.

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Author	Bijma, P. Meuwissen, Theo H. E. Woolliams, John A.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	BACKGROUND Perhaps the first question to answer here is: in what way does design and sustainability in developed countries differ from that in developing countries ? In general, the two problems are the same; getting the maximum possible gain in the breeding goal from the genetic resources available within the technical and environmental constraints that are applied to the breeding program. More specifically, in developing countries breeding goals will often be increasing yields of primary products whilst retaining adaptive fitness, whereas in the developed world it is increasingly about improving health and welfare whilst retaining yields. Schemes in developing and developed countries are both constrained in the genetic resources that can be used either by the need to retain adaptive fitness on the one hand or primary product yields on the other. Again, as a generality, technical capacity will be greater in the developed countries so the challenges will be less about making the fundamental operations of recording, evaluation, selection and dissemination effective, but more about implementing new techniques to address the goals more fully or more precisely. In developing countries environmental constraints will often be direct threats to production from disease or drought, whereas in developed countries such constraints are less direct, but begin to have a real impact through regulations and consumer concerns about pollutants and welfare.
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