If a seedless melon has no seeds, then how do they make MORE seedless melons????!
Question: If a seedless melon has no seeds, then how do they make MORE seedless melons!?!?!?!? (please answer!!!!!)!?!?!?!?
If a seedless melon (ex!. watermelon) has no seeds, then how is it possible to make more of them!? And if they make more of them, since it's a fruit, seeds probably have to be involved, so technically it's not even seedless! So how do they make more of them if there are no seeds, and if there ARE seeds, why did the people growing the produce lie to us!?!?!?!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Hilarious!! and a great question!. seedless fruits and vegetables are made by cross-breeding:
Seedless watermelons began to be a big seller in United States markets in the 1990s!. Besides the convenience of having few or no hard black seeds when consuming the fruit, the new variety has a hard shell, making it easy to ship and giving it longer shelf life!. Seedless watermelons are sterile, that is seedless, because they have three sets of chromosomes!. This condition is called triploid!. Standard watermelons, like Thompson grapes and most other organisms, have two sets of chromosomes, and are called diploid!. To produce triploid watermelons, a diploid parent is pollinated by tetraploid watermelon, which has four chromosomes!. During sexual reproduction, the new organism inherits half of each parent's genetic material!. As a result, the new watermelon gets one chromosome from the diploid parent, and two from the tetraploid, making it triploid!. The triploid hybrid is virtually seedless!. It produces a very few seeds, and these can be planted to grow new watermelons!. But the new plants must be pollinated by standard diploid watermelons in order to produce fruit!.
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Seedless watermelons began to be a big seller in United States markets in the 1990s!. Besides the convenience of having few or no hard black seeds when consuming the fruit, the new variety has a hard shell, making it easy to ship and giving it longer shelf life!. Seedless watermelons are sterile, that is seedless, because they have three sets of chromosomes!. This condition is called triploid!. Standard watermelons, like Thompson grapes and most other organisms, have two sets of chromosomes, and are called diploid!. To produce triploid watermelons, a diploid parent is pollinated by tetraploid watermelon, which has four chromosomes!. During sexual reproduction, the new organism inherits half of each parent's genetic material!. As a result, the new watermelon gets one chromosome from the diploid parent, and two from the tetraploid, making it triploid!. The triploid hybrid is virtually seedless!. It produces a very few seeds, and these can be planted to grow new watermelons!. But the new plants must be pollinated by standard diploid watermelons in order to produce fruit!.
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Although so-called "seedless" watermelons have far fewer seeds than the seeded varieties, they generally contain at least a few soft, pale seeds!.
They are the product of crossing a female tetraploid plant (itself the product of genetic manipulation, using colchicine) with diploid pollen!. The resulting triploid plant is sterile, but will produce the seedless fruit if pollenized by a diploid plant!.
For this reason, commercially available seedless watermelon seeds actually contain two varieties of seeds; that of the triploid seedless plant itself (recognizable because the seed is larger), and the diploid plant which is needed to pollenize the triploid!. Unless both plant types are grown in the same vicinity, no seedless fruit will result!.
This system for growing seedless watermelons was first developed by H!. Kihara in Japan and subsequently improved by O J Eigsti in partnership with Kihara!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
They are the product of crossing a female tetraploid plant (itself the product of genetic manipulation, using colchicine) with diploid pollen!. The resulting triploid plant is sterile, but will produce the seedless fruit if pollenized by a diploid plant!.
For this reason, commercially available seedless watermelon seeds actually contain two varieties of seeds; that of the triploid seedless plant itself (recognizable because the seed is larger), and the diploid plant which is needed to pollenize the triploid!. Unless both plant types are grown in the same vicinity, no seedless fruit will result!.
This system for growing seedless watermelons was first developed by H!. Kihara in Japan and subsequently improved by O J Eigsti in partnership with Kihara!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Watermelon breeders discovered that crossing a diploid plant (bearing the standard two sets of chromosomes) with a tetraploid plant (having four sets of chromosomes) results in a fruit that produces a triploid seed!. (Yes, it has three sets of chromosomes)!. This seed grows fruit that rarely develops seeds, although you may find some empty white seed coats!. The melon's flesh is firmer because the usual softening of the fruit around the seeds does not occur!.
So the really COOL part is that watermelons WITH seeds are actually used to produce the SEEDLESS variety!.!.!. neat, huh!?
Mystery solved!.
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So the really COOL part is that watermelons WITH seeds are actually used to produce the SEEDLESS variety!.!.!. neat, huh!?
Mystery solved!.
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A seedless watermelon is a hybrid that has three sets of chromosomes and is called a triploid!. Producing a triploid plant requires a tetraploid(four sets of chromosomes) female parent to be crossed with a diploid (two sets of chromosomes) male parent!. The resulting offspring is sterile!. Different characteristics in seedless watermelons are produced by selecting a diploid or tetraploid parents expressing other desired traits!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
A seedless watermelon is a hybrid that has three sets of chromosomes and is called a triploid!. Producing a triploid plant requires a tetraploid(four sets of chromosomes) female parent to be crossed with a diploid (two sets of chromosomes) male parent!. The resulting offspring is sterile!. Different characteristics in seedless watermelons are produced by selecting a diploid or tetraploid parents expressing other desired traits!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
they have seeds they just are really small and tender you juts eat them and dont notice!. they are not like the big black ones normally in melons!.
id like to add im not a melon expert so i might be wrong this info is from expierienceWww@Enter-QA@Com
id like to add im not a melon expert so i might be wrong this info is from expierienceWww@Enter-QA@Com
It is called genetic engineering!. The seedless watermelon grows from a seed engineered (specially bred) to produce a watermelon without seeds!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I don't know this for a fact, but I'm guessing they take the vines from the seedless melon, and replant them, hence the growth continues!.
I could be wrong though!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
I could be wrong though!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
They take a cutting from the mother plant!. Then a cutting from that, having designed and bred the mother plant to be seedless!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
They grow them by spraying the fruit's flower with a hormone (Auxin) it is either extracted from the plant itself or they are chemically made!.!.
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They have seeds--just not ugly black ones like regular water melons have!. The same for seedless cucumbers!.!. Their seeds are smaller!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Very interesting!.!.!.
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Seedless_fr!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Seedless_fr!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
http://edis!.ifas!.ufl!.edu/CV006
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they rub it up against another melon till its juices start coming outWww@Enter-QA@Com
they biologically engineer and copy the cells and dna to make moreWww@Enter-QA@Com
idk ive always wonderd how they grow them seedless, its a fruit its suposed to have seeds ya know!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
Thats a darn good question!!, I never thought about it!.!.!.too bad I don't have a darn good answer!! but a good question nevertheless!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Clone seeding!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
genetic engineering!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
you know that is a really good question
possibly cloningWww@Enter-QA@Com
possibly cloningWww@Enter-QA@Com
LOL!. That's a very good question
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I do not know!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
i think they just pick them b4 they grow seedsWww@Enter-QA@Com
artificial stuff they put in themWww@Enter-QA@Com
thats a good question!.!.!.!.uhhh i really dont know ask a melon sellerWww@Enter-QA@Com
SAY WHAT!?! this question doesnt really make senceWww@Enter-QA@Com
Well seedless melons are seedless becuse the seeds were taken out!.Www@Enter-QA@Com