Seedless Fruit

@marcmm (1804)
Malaysia
January 24, 2011 10:38pm CST
Many of use nowadays like to eat seedless fruits. There have been a varietyof them available nowadays. Seedless grapes, seedless watermelon, seedless guava and a few more. But when we try to logically think it, how can we plant those seedless fruits. I have buy a seeds for a seedless watermelon. And it make me think, if it is seedless, how can it have a seeds. It just make my head crack for thinking it. Those anybody know how to make fruit seedless and is there is any logic thinking on having a seed of a seedless fruits?
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4 responses
@csabiCZ (194)
• North Korea
27 Jan 11
Wow i heard about seedless grapes but seedless watermelon,i never heard about it.I would like to try it,i like seedless fruits, they are more comfortably to eat i don't have to spit all the time but unfortunately they don't sell seedless watermelon in my area.They do normal watermelon but i couldn't find seedless yet.Where i can get some?
@pogi253 (1596)
• Philippines
25 Jan 11
Seedless fruits are mainly interesting because they must be propagated by seed, and up till now growers can still develop parthenocarpy. One way to make seedless fruit is to produce triploid seed. As in the case of bananas, triploid watermelons cannot produce useful seed, but they still develop good fruit through parthenocarpy. Plant breeders create triploid seed by crossing a regular diploid parent with a tetraploid parent, which itself is made by genetically manipulating diploids to double their chromosome number. In the case of watermelons, this manipulation has to be performed each production, so it is a somewhat costly proposition but still worthwhile.
• Canada
25 Jan 11
This is large corporations taking control of food. They create plants in a labratory that are sterile (no seeds) so that people cannot buy from them once, and then plant and grow their own, but must buy from them every time. If there is some large natural disaster will regret growing so much sterile food, because if the people who know how to engineer it perish, or electricity gets knocked out and the labs don't work, how will we grow food?
@riquen (45)
• United States
25 Jan 11
Sadly, It's a world where corporations control what we eat. On the other hand, I like seedless fruit. More eating (nom, nom) less spitting out the seeds. I'm not familiar on how they do it, but they mess around with the genetics of the fruits.