How do seedless fruit grow?
In: Biology
It depends on what you mean. There are a couple of different ways to address your question, so I’ll generalize with examples of (arguably) a couple of the most common examples…
**Bananas**: Bananas are a rhizome, meaning that all bananas are genetically from a single plant. To start a new Banana tree, you take a healthy clipping from an existing tree and add it to water until it grows roots. (As a clarification, there are actually different kinds of Bananas, so each KIND of banana would come from the same plant.)
**Seedless Watermelons:** If you pay close attention, you will notice that seedless watermelons actually do contain seeds. But the seeds are poorly formed and immature. Seedless watermelon plants come from a strain of seeds that have been bred specifically to produce fruit with the trait of poorly formed, immature seeds. So the seed that grew the plant was a good seed, but you can’t use seeds from seedless watermelons to grow a new plant.
As a side note, most fruit that you buy in the grocery store is specifically bred to possess the trait of good fruit. Most seeds found in the fruit you buy from a store is not really viable to grow more plants with good fruit.
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