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<article-title>Correction: Drought adaptation index (DAI) based on BLUP as a selection approach for drought-resilient switchgrass germplasm</article-title>
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<label>&#x2a;</label>Correspondence: Ali Mekki Missaoui, <email xlink:href="cssamm@uga.edu">cssamm@uga.edu</email>
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<p>The following supplemental materials were omitted.</p>
<p>SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 1 &#x7c; Spatial plots for each year from 2019 through 2022. CV and UC represent drought and control fields, respectively.</p>
<p>SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 2 &#x7c; Histogram of raw dry biomass yield (g plant<sup>&#x2212;1</sup>) before the removal of yield data rows below 50&#xa0;g plant<sup>&#x2212;1</sup>. CV and UC represent drought and control fields, respectively.</p>
<p>SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 3 &#x7c; Histogram of raw dry biomass yield (g plant<sup>-1</sup>) after the removal of yield data rows below 50&#xa0;g plant<sup>-1</sup>. CV and UC represent drought and control fields, respectively.</p>
<p>SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 4 &#x7c; QQ plot of data after outlier removal.</p>
<p>SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 5 &#x7c; Distribution of BLUP predicted values.</p>
<p>SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 6 &#x7c; Biplot of genotype mean performance (yield as BLUP-predicted value) versus second interaction principal component (IPCA2) scores.</p>
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