Interesting question

meetoo · Guru

Interesting question

Haji-Baba · Senior Member

Same as for seedless watermelons, they are grafted.

Have fun Haji-Baba

brickies · Guru

Some are grafted and then some are corrupted

woolman · Guru

Don't worry. It is like all fruit and vegetables we buy, genetically modified. For some reason the protesters are only worried about canola being genetically modified. Good luck trying to find unmodified food. Neil

Moorey · Senior Member

My granddaughter is always modifying her food and then asks Pop do you want to share.....NAH I'm good thanks sweety.

Moorey

landy · Guru

So maybe the chicken did come before the egg.
Landy

PeterD · Guru

woolman wrote:
Don't worry. It is like all fruit and vegetables we buy, genetically modified. For some reason the protesters are only worried about canola being genetically modified. Good luck trying to find unmodified food. Neil

Cross breeding is different to genetically modifying. Cross breeding is done by using different varieties of the same genus. This is the way new varieties were produced until recently. There is no foreign material introduced.

Genetic engineering is completely different. Foreign material is introduced into plants. It is completely different to cross breeding.

Protesters are worried about all plant products that are genetically produced. To date there are very few products on the market. There has been very little in the way of long term tests on humans.

Desert Dweller · Senior Member

JAZZ apples, yum!

Woody n Sue · Guru

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the seed less watermelon is missing or doesn't have the ability to take up a certain mineral can't remember which one but it is needed to make the seeds
Woody

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

I apologise for taking away the mystic of this thread .... however, Mr Google usually knows the answers we poor ordinary folk crave.....

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. Fruit development is triggered by pollination, so these plants must be grown alongside a diploid strain to provide pollen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedless_fruit

Cheers - John

Grandad5 · Senior Member

PeterD wrote:
woolman wrote:
Don't worry. It is like all fruit and vegetables we buy, genetically modified. For some reason the protesters are only worried about canola being genetically modified. Good luck trying to find unmodified food. Neil
Cross breeding is different to genetically modifying. Cross breeding is done by using different varieties of the same genus. This is the way new varieties were produced until recently. There is no foreign material introduced.
Genetic engineering is completely different. Foreign material is introduced into plants. It is completely different to cross breeding.
Protesters are worried about all plant products that are genetically produced. To date there are very few products on the market. There has been very little in the way of long term tests on humans.

Hey thanks for that explanation. I have at times quietly wondered what the difference was and what all the hoohaa was about.

Jim

aussie_paul · Guru

Grandad5 wrote:

Hey thanks for that explanation. I have at times quietly wondered what the difference was and what all the hoohaa was about.
Jim

Me too.

Aussie Paul. smile

meetoo · Guru

Thanks all, I can now eat seedless mandarins in peace. :)
Cheers, John.

dorian · Guru

rockylizard wrote:
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.

So many oids! Oh no, the Triffids are here!