Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Merits and Demerits of pedigree method

Merits:
1. Maximum opportunity for the breeder touse his skill and judgment for the selection of plants in segregating generation.
2. It provides information about the inheritance of qualitative character from the pedigree record .
3. Chances of recovering transgressivesegregants is more.
4. Weak and defect progenies are eliminated at an early stage.

Demerits:
1. Maintainance of accurate pedigree record is tedious and takes up valuable time
2. Selection of progenies in every generation laborious, time consuming. Difficult to handle many crosses.
3. No opportunity for natural selection.
4. Possibility of losing the valuable genotype is early segregating generation.