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crash
18th February 2018, 08:27 PM
So where do the seeds come from to grow seedless watermelon?

bee utey
18th February 2018, 08:46 PM
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 triploid seed is the seed that produces seedless watermelons!

Where does seedless watermelon come from? (http://www.agfoundation.org/news/where-does-seedless-watermelon-come-from)