In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization of ovules. The fruit is therefore seedless.

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Seedless fruit production, known as parthenocarpy, offers major commercial advantages by improving eating quality, reducing labor costs, and stabilizing yields under poor pollination conditions.

For the sake of knowledge, experimental biologists tweak the nose of Nature by causing plants and animals to produce offspring without proper parentage. Tadpoles have been coaxed out of unfertilized ...

Assessment of parthenocarpy in two southern highbush blueberry breeding populations. (A) The parthenocarpy treatment included emasculation of flowers and exclusion of pollinators for 10 flowers of ...

The term parthenocarpy originates from the Greek words 'parthenos' meaning virgin and 'karpos' meaning fruit. The term parthenocarpy originates from the Greek words parthenos meaning virgin and karpos ...