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    In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the...
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  • natural fruit-setting without fertilization). In male sterile plants, the parthenocarpy expresses itself only sporadically on the plant with deformed fruits...
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    domesticated species have larger fruits and larger yet fewer seeds. Parthenocarpy is known to occur in certain cultivars of C. pepo. It is found from...
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  • are propagated from cuttings, and produce fruit without pollination (parthenocarpy). Further, foods such as root vegetables and leafy vegetables will produce...
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    or leaves, has never been considered to be apomixis. In contrast to parthenocarpy, which involves seedless fruit formation without fertilization, apomictic...
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    Marquez-Guzman, J. (2012). "The fruit of Bursera: Structure, maturation and parthenocarpy". AoB Plants. 2012: pls027. doi:10.1093/aobpla/pls027. PMC 3484315....
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    pollinators. Some flowers produce diaspores without fertilization (parthenocarpy). After fertilization, the ovary of the flower develops into fruit containing...
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  • pair of pinnae as opposed to a single pinna. Compare imparipinnate. parthenocarpy The development or production of fruit without fertilization. Compare...
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    sought, female plants are grown separately from male plants to induce parthenocarpy in the female plant's fruits (popularly called "sin semilla" which is...
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    their seedlessness. In some species, seedlessness is the result of parthenocarpy, where fruits set without fertilization. Parthenocarpic fruit-set may...
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  • particle, partisan, partition parthen- virgin Greek παρθένος (parthénos) parthenocarpy, parthenogenesis, Parthenon, Parthenope parv- little Latin parvus parvovirus...
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    associated with parthenocarpy, the production of fruit without fertilization. Self-incompatible fruits are able to undergo parthenocarpy to yield seedless...
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    recreational use as dried flowers, extracts, or infused food products. Induced parthenocarpy in pistilate flowers, and selective breeding are used to produce either...
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    1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a087705. Robinson, R. W.; Reiners, Stephen (July 1999). "Parthenocarpy in Summer Squash" (PDF). HortScience. 34 (4): 715–717. doi:10.21273/HORTSCI...
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    produce much fruit, although some fruit was set without fertilization (parthenocarpy). Jostaberry is frequently mistakenly termed Ribes × culverwelli as...
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    cultivars have been developed to be seedless (see nucellar embryony and parthenocarpy) and easy to peel. Citrus fruits are notable for their fragrance, partly...
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    present in the AAA cultivar and all produce seedless fruits through parthenocarpy. This fact means that the plants are spread by conventional vegetative...
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    materials, or for its edible male bud. They were selected early for parthenocarpy and seed sterility in their fruits, a process that might have taken...
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    Stenospermocarpy is the biological mechanism that produces parthenocarpy (seedlessness) in some fruits, notably many table grapes. In stenospermocarpic...
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    removed. For fruit with unfertilized seeds, exogenous auxin results in parthenocarpy ("virgin-fruit" growth). Fruits form abnormal morphologies when auxin...
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    Miraculous births – Conceptions and births by miraculous circumstances Parthenocarpy – Production of seedless fruit without fertilisation – plants with seedless...
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  • heat-shocking them to double their chromosome number. Parthenogenesis Parthenocarpy Androgenesis: a review through the study of the selfish shellfish Corbicula...
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  • particle, partisan, partition parthen- virgin Greek παρθένος (parthénos) parthenocarpy, parthenogenesis, Parthenon, Parthenope parv- little Latin parvus parvovirus...
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    pods, causing seedless pods, or in other words, parthenocarpic fruits. Parthenocarpy results in M. perniciosa targeting nutrient acquisition while altering...
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    can also produce seedless fruit that develop without fertilization (parthenocarpy). "Bromelia hieronymi Mez | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science"...
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  • "Combining Ability of Summer-squash Lines With Different Degrees of Parthenocarpy and PRSV-W Resistance". Genetics and Molecular Biology. 34 (4): 616–623...
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  • whether the manipulation of flowering plants to produce seedless fruits, parthenocarpy, could be a way to produce crops without the need for pollination Osborne...
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  • Halle. He is known for being the first to identify the phenomenon of parthenocarpy and coin the term. The standard author abbreviation Noll is used to...
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    genetic study resulted in their findings of hereditary variegation and parthenocarpy in tomato plants. In 1959, the Lesleys jointly received the L.H. Vaughan...
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    retained on the plant for some time. The production of seedless fruit (parthenocarpy) is common, as is seed abortion (stenospermocarpy). When a seed is present...
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