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

Quite a few crop plants are actually sterile. Cavendish Bananas for example (the kind you get to buy everywhere). They don't have seeds. Sweet oranges are another example.

turbinerneiter on June 9, 2019 [–]

Good point, I was mainly thinking about grain crops. Wasn't fully aware that the term crops also includes all the other growable fruit.

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