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After reading this article you will learn about the tetraploid production of seedless watermelon. Triploid hybrids produce seedless fruit. The tetraploid method for seedless watermelon production was invented by H. Kihara in Japan and these were available in 1951. He began development of tetraploids in 1939. Development of triploid watermelons faces problems of additional selection against sterility and fruit abnormalities [...]