Parthenocarpy
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title:
Parthenocarpy
text:
In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the fruit seedless. The phenomenon has been observed since ancient times but was first scientifically described by German botanist Fritz Noll in 1902. Stenospermocarpy may also produce apparently seedless fruit, but the seeds are actually aborted while they are still small. Parthenocarpy occasionally occurs as a mutation in nature; if it affects every
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Production of seedless fruit without fertilisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy
date created:
2003-10-16T04:09:37Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:36:23Z
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