Question

parthenocarpy fruits have lot of commercial value. what possible reason do you think has made them commercially important ?

Answer 1

In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning "virgin fruit") is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization 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.

However, parthenocarpy of some fruits on a plant may be of value. Up to 20% of the fruits of wild parsnip are parthenocarpic. The seedless wild parsnip fruit are preferred by certain herbivores and so serve as a "decoy defense" against seed predation.[1] Utah juniper has a similar defense against bird feeding.[2] The ability to produce seedless fruit when pollination is unsuccessful may be an advantage to a plant because it provides food for the plant's seed dispersers. Without a fruit crop, the seed dispersing animals may starve or migrate.

In some plants, pollination or another stimulation is required for parthenocarpy, termed stimulative parthenocarpy. Plants that do not require pollination or other stimulation to produce parthenocarpic fruit have vegetative parthenocarpy. Seedless cucumbers are an example of vegetative parthenocarpy, seedfull watermelon is an example of stenospermocarpy.

Plants that moved from one area of the world to another may not always be accompanied by their pollinating partner, and the lack of pollinators has spurred human cultivation of parthenocarpic varieties. Some parthenocarpic varieties have been developed as genetically modified organisms

Answer 2

Parthenocarpy is a process of producing fruits without the occurrence of fertilization. It is a process in which no male gametes has to fuse with female gametes to fertilize and produce fruit.

Since, parthenocarpy doesn't required staminate trees which has become this process more easy. Parthenocarpic fruits are commercially important because they take lesser time to grow, contains no seed that maintain the taste.

Nowadays, the process of artificial parthenocaroy is used to produce fruitless seed to produce four season seedless fruits.