However, seedless watermelons are incapable of reproduction. So ... when a 44-chromosome female watermelon plant is ...

As summer grinds on, the Non-GMO Project is here to reassure consumers that seedless watermelon is not genetically modified ... The technical distinction between a transgenic and a chemically mutated ...

You can't plant a lemon seed to grow a lemon tree ... Fruit seed is the result of sexual reproduction in plants, which, like human children, are each a unique creation. Asexual propagation ...

Named "DaisySL" for Daisy seedless, the new fruit is finely textured ... a professor of genetics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, who developed 'DaisySL' along with staff scientist ...

Michigan You don’t need seeds to grow seedless fruit. In one method, you take vegetative cuttings of the parent plant and root them out, essentially cloning it. Another is grafting, or taking a ...

Fortuitously, similar mutations have been intensively studied in Arabidopsis, a mustard plant that is the lab rat of botany. Understanding this genetic pathway could lead to seedless sugar apples ...

Social media users are warning against the purported dangers of seedless watermelon. "Eating seedless watermelon treated with colchicine can cause cancers, severe liver and kidney issues and ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...