Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

Seedlessness is a desirable character in fruit crops and fetches good prize in domestic and international markets owing to their high quality. There are certain causes of evolution of seedlessness in fruit crops ranging from evolutionary changes, genetic makeup, induced hybridization, mutations, and polyploidy etc. However seedless fruits have certain limitations like low recovery of seedless types and lack of proper markers for judging it at early age. Triploidy is one of the major ways to induce seedlessness in fruit crops which comes in with other advantages like prolonged flowering period, greater biomass, ease in genome evolution and genome plausibility. Natural Selection, artificial hybridization, endosperm culture in vitro and fusion of somatic diploid protoplasts with haploid microspore cells are possible traditional ways to induce triploidy in fruits along with some recent biotechnological advances. Barring some limitations production of seedless fruits is highly advantageous as in year-round production, processing, gustatory advantages etc. and thus need to expanded in times to come.