Why do so many fruits have seedless varieties but the apple and cherry do not?
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It’s very difficult to cultivate a seedless fruit. Even if by magic you could acquire a bushel of seedless apples… how to you make more? Plant the seeds?
The (relatively small, actually) number of seedless fruits thus require some genetic and/or agricultural trickery to create. Seedless oranges come from grafting branches from one solitary mutant orange tree onto donor trees that would otherwise grow seeded oranges. Seedless watermelon are grown by cross-breeding two strains that are sterile when combined.
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