Seedless Wonders

Seedless fruits sure are convenient. So how do they do that?

Seedless fruits usually taste every bit as good as the seeded variety, and a lot of work goes into growing them that way. There are several different methods depending on the fruit. In some cases, it's basically cloning. A method has been developed by growing fruit through the use of cuttings which produces the fruit, but not the seeds.

Seedless watermelons are grown with another method of breeding. It involves crossing two varieties to create a hybrid. Because the two parents have an unequal number of chromosomes, the offspring produces fruit that never develop seeds.