Fruit, corresponding to the plant’s ovary (or ovaries), protect seed development and serve as the vehicle for seed dispersal to different habitats for species propagation. Fruit also provide humans with a source of nutrition, culinary diversity, and often great pleasure. Humans consume fruit from a wide range of plants, including members of the Rutaceae (citrus), Rosaceae (stone fruits, apples,...

Several workers on inheritance in watermelon {Citrullus vulgaris Sclirad.) have independently reported relation between fruit shape and sex and between fruit shape and weight. The reported relation between shape and weight, if consistently true, will have some economic importance in view of the present demand for smaller highquality watermeloas. Weetman (IS)^ found that shape inheritance when r...