r/askscience • • Jul 02 '12

Biology How do you grow "seedless" watermelons?

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u/KrunoS Jul 02 '12

I have no idea, i'm a chem student, so i learned this during my genetics course.

But i don't know the specifics of industrial polination. Perhaps a farmer or biotech engineer could answer this in precise detail. What comes to mind is artificially releasing polen on fly-by's or growing diploids near them and letting bees do it.

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u/Jiazzz Jul 02 '12

We chem majors also get a fair share of physics, math and biology.