Since the demand for the seedless watermelon is increasing in the international market, there is a need for the development and production of the seedless hybrids. The seedless watermelons have high commercial value currently and also in future. Plant breeding programmes needs more precise and advanced techniques for the improvement especially in the watermelon crop improvement such as tetraploid development. Tetraploid development is the first and typical phase for the seedless watermelon hybrid development. Generation of meiotically stable tetraploid lines development and stabilization is a big and tedious task in the seedless watermelon development programmes.
Seedless Watermelon Development, Constrains, commercial value
Selvakumar Gurunathan & Bharathi Raja Ramadoss. (2019). Induction of tetraploids in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus Thunb.) through chromosome doubling. Journal of Innovative Agriculture, 6(4), 1-3.
