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Postby burningredphoenix on Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:14 am

i just ate a seedless orange. how do they continue to hybrid breed them without seeds?
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Postby shn00ky55 on Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:40 am

I imagine that itd require a mixture between two different varities of the same orange. Then that orange would be sterile and when u plant the seeds of this hybrid the seeds are underdeveloped. This all leads ultimately to GMO's ....another reason why a banana at the grocery store doesnt contain seeds.
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Postby biostudent84 on Wed Jan 04, 2006 5:05 am

Correct. What is normally done is that the seeds of seeded fruit is genetically altered to produce seedless crop. After this crop grows, another seeded crop must be altered to produce a second seeded crop.
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Postby MrMistery on Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:55 pm

can't they reproduce vegetatively? I know bananas can, because the reason they don't have any seeds is not the work of some genetics geek, it's because they are triploid.
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