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chr1 on June 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Open Source Seed Initiative

Many seedless plants can still reproduce by other methods. So having a seedless variety of strawberry for instance would be quite nice.

Thinkx220 on June 9, 2019 [–]

What bennifit would be gained by having seedless strawberries?

klez on June 9, 2019 | [–]

That you don't eat the seeds, mainly. They get between your teeth and some people just don't like them.

chr1 on June 9, 2019 | | [–]

Exactly, and seedless pomegranate would be even better.

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