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"Jay Casey" wrote in message m...
Japanese scientists?
Someone told me that it was a Korean scientist named Dr. Wu or Dr. Woo. I
was hoping if someone could confirm it.
It ended up with more supposedly inventors.
Thanks for detailed info, though.

I spent a little time and found the article from Perdue I had read
about seedless watermelons. It gives the lineage of the folks working
on the seedless watermelon aside, from Kihara and Nishiyama, this
gentleman O.J. Eigsti did an intensive breeding program and seems like
an interesting character, I'd like to read more about.
Doesn't surprise me about the Japanese, I imagine getting
watermelon seeds out of a tatami mat could be quite a problem in the
kitchen.
The Perdue site also talks about green melons from the mideast and
the problems with yellow watermelons. In addition it has results from
field trials (In Indiana ) of a number of seedless watermelons.
It's at:
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/p...93/v2-547.html

Take care,
Steve Coyle
www.austingardencenter.com