How do seedless tangerines reproduce?

Most seedless fruit comes about the same way as other fruits, which commonly are grown from cuttings or grafts and not seeds. To make a cutting, a branch or vine is cut from a plant, fed a nutrient mixture, and put in dirt, where leaves and roots form. read more

SEEDLESS FRUIT such as navel oranges are propagated asexually, usually by grafting. The most frequent reasons for lack of seed development are pollination failure, or nonfunctional eggs or sperm. In many plants, self-incompatibility genes limit successful fertilization to cross-pollination between genetically different male and female parents. read more

Since the new tangerines have no seeds, the growers harvest small twigs from the seedless trees that they do have, and graft these twigs onto other types of tangerine trees. The grafted twigs become part of the host tree. Then they grow into branches that have seedless tangerines. read more