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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...