Principles of Plant Breeding (2+1)

Divergent parents

Identification of divergent parents:

• A survey of the available germplasm is made for existing morphological diversity.
  
• A preliminary survey can be carried out using a few DNA markers to identify divergent parents among the available lines.
  
• It is advantageous to select parents which posses constricting traits of agronomic importance, so that genes for those traits can also be simultaneously localized on map