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Our main objective was to investigate the potential of implementing GS in tea‐breeding programs to speed up genetic progress despite the low cost of PS in LMIC. We used stochastic simulations to compare three GS‐breeding programs with a Pedigree and PS program. The PS program mimicked a practical commercial tea‐breeding program over a 40‐yr breeding period. All the GS programs achieved at least 1.65 times higher genetic gains than the PS program and 1.4 times compared with Seed‐Ped program. Seed‐GSc was the most cost‐effective strategy of implementing GS in tea‐breeding programs. It introduces GS at the seedlings stage to increase selection accuracy early in the program and reduced the generation interval to 2 yr. The Seed‐Ped program outperformed PS by 1.2 times and could be implemented where it is not possible to use GS. Our results indicate that GS could be used to improve genetic gain per unit time and cost even in cost‐constrained tea‐breeding programs.\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"The Plant 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