Parthenocarpy
Fruit development without fertilisation, and therefore without pollination.
Botany
Definition
Commercial common figs and some banana and citrus varieties set fruit without pollination and without seed. It is why the common fig on a supermarket shelf involves no fig wasp, and why some crops that appear to depend on pollinators in fact do not.
See also
Other botany terms
Sources
Sources
- Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production — Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) (2016) · Systematic review Link
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