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However, to ensure the success of targeted breeding, they must include the high frequency agricultural drought environments that occur within the on-farm Target Population of Environments (TPEs). Enviromics and Phenomics technologies have advanced and can be applied to characterise the key agricultural drought environment-types, including distinguishing between vegetative, flowering and post-flowering water-deficits that expose contributions of traits to crop productivity. These design considerations collectively are referred to as MET-TPE alignment. Targeted breeding strategies are discussed using forms of the Breeder\u2019s Equation that include a term to quantify the trait genetic correlation between METs and the TPE as a measure of MET-TPE alignment. This extended Breeder\u2019s equation separates within-MET prediction accuracy from the MET\u2192TPE transfer of prediction and selection outcomes. With improved MET-TPE alignment improved transfer of genetic gain to the on-farm TPE can be achieved. 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