However, the usually high costs and the relativelylow fruit production associated with performing controlled crossesin some woody perennial species results in the use of alternativeapproaches to produce seeds from controlled crosses. This is thecase in avocado (Persea americana Mill.) where usually hand polli-nation has been reported as feasible for producing a few fruits butis not generally used for breeding purposes where a high number ofseedlings are usually needed. The most common method is to col-lect fruits from the desired parents planted closely, and sometimescaged together with honeybees, the most common pollinator incommercial production, and analyze the paternity of the fruits pro-duced with molecular markers to select the progeny of the desiredcrosses (Lahav and Lavi, 2013).