2006-07-31 02:03:12 · 17 answers · asked by coop 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
They are cloned in underground bunkers....
2006-07-31 02:06:00 · answer #1 · answered by SunnyDays 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Grapes are propagated vegatively (by taking cuttings etc). Many fruit are propagated this way indeed many are even grown on a different rootstock. They are propagated in this way to guarantee the properties of the progeny. You don´t want to wait 5-8 years for a vine to reach a decent level of cropping only to find that the fruit is small, or the yield is low, or the seeds are enormous. The seeds from a grape are a result of sexual reproduction so they will have parts of both parent plants´DNA, not all of which may be disirable. Imagine your mum looks like Catherine Zeta Jones and your dad looks like Carl Malden - you´d be hoping to avoid his nose in your genetic make up
2006-07-31 02:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by davidbell196 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are GM (Genetically Modified) grapes. This means that scientists have manipulated the plants genes to create a vine that produces no seed within the fruit. Therefore the only way to reproduce these plants from now on is by propagating cuttings from the plants. This creates plants which are genetically identical to the mother plant, making them seedless too.
Hope this helps!
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2006-07-31 02:29:39 · answer #3 · answered by Gib77 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grape vines have the resilence of trees, they don't need to seed new ones every year, each year the vine continues to produce new seedless grapes
now with seedless watermelons the do have to seed every year, they have one crop of melons that have a x gene and another crop with a y gene and they pollinate these to make a seed that has the xy gene ( this seed will then produce a seedless watermelon) that is why seedless watermelons are so expensive is because the can't dedicate 100% of the feild to harvestable crop, they have to save room for the parents
2006-07-31 02:07:02 · answer #4 · answered by Justin K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not seedless!!! They have been cultivated from varieties of grapes where the seeds develop very late on, after the time at which the grapes would normally be picked.
2006-07-31 02:10:44 · answer #5 · answered by grpr1964 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
seedless grape seeds lol, just kidding, they are grown by grafting different vines together.
2006-07-31 04:13:48 · answer #6 · answered by daddysboicub 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most likely the same way they grow seedless oranges I am not sure how it is done
2006-07-31 03:26:08 · answer #7 · answered by honeybunnies93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They grow the seeds separately!
2006-07-31 02:07:51 · answer #8 · answered by grumpyoldman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They maybe be hybrids, grown from cultivated seeds from other plants.
2006-07-31 02:08:28 · answer #9 · answered by bigjohnwales 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they use leaf cuttings, not to sure its just a guess
2006-07-31 02:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by Poppyxx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plant wine.
2006-07-31 02:10:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋