Unlike animal breeders and human geneticists, plant breeders rarely use pedigree charts in their work. Which is most likely the reason that plant breeders use other methods for analyzing results instead of constructing pedigree charts?

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Destinee Bryant

11 February, 05:04

Unlike animal breeders and human geneticists, plant breeders rarely use pedigree charts in their work. Which is most likely the reason that plant breeders use other methods for analyzing results instead of constructing pedigree charts?

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Giovanny Vincent · Answer 1

The main reason behind this is that animals and humans have a limited number of offspring in one go which is at most 10 whereas one plant can give hundreds of seeds so each generation will be large in size and very difficult to handle in a pedigree.