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Plants that do not require pollination or other stimulation to produce parthenocarpic fruit have vegetative parthenocarpy. Seedless cucumbers are an example of vegetative parthenocarpy, seedless watermelon is an example of stenospermocarpy as they are immature seeds (aborted ones).
Flowers that bear a gynoecium but no stamens are called pistillate or carpellate. Flowers lacking a gynoecium are called staminate. The gynoecium is often referred to as female because it gives rise to female (egg-producing) gametophytes; however, strictly speaking sporophytes do not have a sex, only gametophytes do. [1]
Gynodioecious: having hermaphrodite flowers and female flowers on separate plants. [19] Gynoecious: having only female flowers (the female of a dioecious population); producing seed but not pollen. [20] Gynomonoecious: having both bisexual and female flowers on the same plant. [6] Hermaphroditic: see bisexual. [6]
A fruit is the mature, ripened ovary of a flower following double fertilization in an angiosperm.Because gymnosperms do not have an ovary but reproduce through fertilization of unprotected ovules, they produce naked seeds that do not have a surrounding fruit, this meaning that juniper and yew "berries" are not fruits, but modified cones.
The recalled cucumbers are dark green, with a diameter of about 1.5 to 2 inches and a length of about 5 to 9 inches, according to Fresh Start Produce Sales. Neither mini cucumbers nor English ...
Traditional cultivars produce male blossoms first, then female, in about equivalent numbers. Newer gynoecious hybrid cultivars produce almost all female blossoms. They may have a pollenizer cultivar interplanted, and the number of beehives per unit area is increased, but temperature changes induce male flowers even on these plants, which may be ...
A recall of cucumbers related to a salmonella outbreak that has left 68 people sickened has expanded to include produce sold by two additional companies in 25 states.. The expanded recall comes ...
According to the FDA, the produce came from SunFed Produce, LLC, which initiated a voluntary recall of all sizes of its fresh American/slicer cucumbers grown by Agrotato, S.A. de C.V. in Sonora ...