Talk:Seedless fruit

Need to highlight Seedless Watermelon
Come on, probably one of the biggest scientific questions out there anyone ever asks is "how do they grow seedless watermelon if they have no seeds?". Half the people coming onto this page must be searching for this answer.

What would be a good way to draw the eye to the seedless watermelon clause in the article? Would it be appropriate to make another heading/section that refers back to the part already there or that just re-states what it says?

In the meantime, I'm going to create a shortcut article for "seedless watermelon"

unneeded stuff
I took out "Similarly, fruits with small and unobtrusive seeds, such as strawberries and kiwi fruits, would be little improved by being seedless. And in species whose seed is the commercial or culinary product, such as sesame, most legumes, or grains of all kinds, seedless fruits would be considered a serious flaw." It seemed a little unnecessary Darkblast93 23:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)darkblast93Darkblast93 23:56, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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Seedless Watermelon.
Article says "By contrast, seedless watermelons are grown from seeds. These seeds are produced by crossing diploid and tetraploid lines of watermelon, with the resulting seeds producing sterile triploid plants." This was how it was done 50 years ago, but these days it's done by genetically modifying the watermelon seedlings with a chemical called colchicine. Swampy 2001:8003:2049:E000:413F:2645:5137:C86A (talk) 03:42, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Do you have a citation for this? Sak ura Cart elet   Talk 03:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Just as an FYI, the colchicine method isn't GM, which entails direct modification of the genetic code. It affects the chromosome ploidy, which is part of the natural speciation of plants and not quite the same thing as gene editing. 185.113.24.24 (talk) 16:49, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * that... that is what that's referring to. The colchicine induces tetraploid-ness EdwinAmi (talk) 03:22, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

There are several links discussing colchicine. I'll add one from Eberly college of science. Sweden don't seem to sell fruit with seeds any more, that's what got me interested. Regards Yoron. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.113.99.182 (talk) 06:24, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Section on GM and definitions
The section on GM species and how the FDA defines transgenic species as GM and non-transgenic species as organic doesn't seem to reference seedless fruits at all. Neither does it seem to have relevance to the previous sections, given – as far as I can tell – none of the techniques involve direct modification of genes. Given it doesn't seem to have more bearing on this article than any other related to food production, I'm erring on the side of WP:BOLD and removing – however, if the consensus is that I'm wrong, feel free to revert. 185.113.24.24 (talk) 16:44, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree with the deletion. Schazjmd   (talk)  18:27, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Moved section regarding colchicine
I am moving this here because it claims the outdated gout medication colchicine is capable of producing polyploidy, and the source it cites has suffered link rot. If we have a better source for this it whould probably be added and this section replaced, as well as adding that information to the colchicine page.

There are several ways to modify watermelons. One way is described here simply stated, the number of chromosomes (the threadlike bodies within cells that contain the inheritance units called genes) in a normal watermelon plant is doubled by the use of the chemical colchicine. Doubling a normal (diploid) watermelon results in a tetraploid plant (one having four sets of chromosomes). When the tetraploid plant is bred back, or pollinated, by a diploid or normal plant, the resulting seed produces a triploid plant that is basically a "mule" of the plant kingdom, and it produces seedless watermelons. Seed of seedless varieties are available from most major seed companies."

71.9.100.212 (talk) 13:23, 19 August 2020 (UTC)