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Selection of suitable parents and good mating designs are keys to the successful of plant breeding schemes. The mating designs have four main importance, (1) to provide information on the genetic control of the character under investigation; (2) to generate a breeding population to be used as a basis for the selection an development of potential varieties; (3) to provide estimates of genetic gain and (4) to provide information for evaluating the parents used in the breeding program.