Seedless fruits and vegetables have been developed by scientists to improve existing varieties, to create new varieties and to meet consumer demands.
Many plants put out what are known as runners or offsets. These shoots emerge from fully mature plants, and they are designed to spread the plant across a wider area. When a plant produces particularly tasty fruits and vegetables, these offsets can be encouraged to create a plantation which is actually just a series of clones from a single plant. It is also possible to grow seedless fruits through the use of cuttings, which produce clones of the parent tree. Cuttings are produced by snipping off sections of the plant and encouraging them to grow independently. Grafting can also be used to cultivate seedless crops. Grafting is a technique most notably used with fruit trees, in which a branch from one tree is cut and attached to another fruit tree.