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In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the fruit seedless. Stenospermocarpy may also produce apparently seedless fruit, but the seeds are actually aborted while they are still small. Parthenocarpy (or stenospermocarpy) occasionally occurs as a mutation in nature; if it affects every flower the plant can no longer sexually reproduce but might be able to propagate by apomixis or by vegetative means.
Gene regulating parthenocarpy and its use
To identify a novel gene involved in parthenocarpy and to provide a use for this gene. [Solution] This parthenocarpy-regulating gene contains a polynucleotide that (1) encodes the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, (2) encodes an amino acid sequence that has 75% or more sequence identity with the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, (3) encodes an amino acid sequence obtained by substituting, etc., 1-98 amino acids in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or (4) hybridizes to a polynucleotide comprising a sequence complementary to a polynucleotide encoding the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 under rigorous conditions.
