Gene Transfer Process Generates Seedless Summer Days
...cessfully used gene transfer techniques to produce seedless tomatofruits and is currently working on the produ...dless. Li believes it should be useful to produce seedless watermelonsbecause of a heavy consumer demand due to a better taste and apossible extended shelf lif...Technology patented to create Pierces disease-resistant grapevines
...e, the nations most popular grape. The top-selling seedless table grape, raisin grape and wine grape, Thompson Seedless accounts for 40 percent of the U.S. grapevine acreage. The genes are a synthetic version of those found in a variety of organisms, such as the silkworm larvae, which uses genes to kill ba...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
..."Ancient farmers selected banana strains that were seedless and thus sterile, and grew the fruit through vegetative sprouting," said Emile Frison, PhD, director of the Montpellier, France-based International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain. "Cultivated bananas have, therefore, been at a ne...Genetically modified eggplants (aubergines) shown to be 30% more productive
... plant hormone indole acetic acid (IAA) to produce seedless fruits. Furthermore, these genetically modified eg...ield trials. The public have a special liking for seedless fruits for two reasons, firstly seeds are often hard and unpalatable and secondly, since seed caviti......rops that grew faster, were more nutritious or had seedless fruits. But now we can target our goals much more ... agricultural purposes, such as dwarf fruit trees, seedless fruits or male-sterile hybrids, often have little in the way of competitive survival value in a natu...