triploid

The banana is a seedless triploid (seeds don't form because they have an odd number of chromosome pairs).

Missing from the article is that unlike most self-cloning animals (I know of no other), Marmorkrebs, has a triploid genome.

So identify that gene complex, pop it into the infertile triploid Gros Michel, and let the cloning commence.

Do you know a way to have 100% triploid female in a set of 1 million females?

TIL Pando is not just an especially large quaking aspen, but rather a triploid mutant that can reproduce only asexually.

Watermelons are made seedless by taking a triploid variety pollinated by a diploid variety.

A triploid human, with three copies of every chromosome, would be hopelessly nonviable.

Bananas in particular are a triploid, so any given strain is effectively one big clone propagated by vegetative cutting, hence the lack of seeds.

Also, since the triploid bananas are sterile, there is a smaller likelihood that the alterations will escape into the wild and ruin fertile diploid bananas.

If you assume that a viable zygote would need to be triploid, which is already unclear, you'd expect 50% of fertilizations to meet that requirement.

Edit: The cultivars list above has Nendran under the AAB Group - Triploid cultivars of Musa × paradisiaca and within that, under the plantain subgroup.

Well, the article says this: > Pando is triploid, meaning that its cells contain three copies of each chromosome, rather than two.

And these disappointing little 5# sterile triploid things cost the same as a full-blown 20# "real" watermelon.

Your quote includes the phrase "decrease in fertility." So let's say an organism has four (A, B, C, D) chromosomes and is triploid.

There is a purely parthenogenic snake that is triploid (three copies of every chromosome instead of the more usual two) which likely allows it some more "freedom of expression", genetically speaking.

I would go swimming in a pond that was full of what I call "freshwater seaweed" and I got a permit to stock it with Triploid Grass Carp that would eat it.