Silencing CWIN expression in tomato resulted in increased fruit abortion, and reduced fruit size and seed number per plant (Zanor et al., 2009). An article from a team led by Dr. Yong Ling Ruan in cotton says that silencing of VIN genes led to fiberless seed phenotype, but not the viability and the development of the seed set.
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Seed developments can be put in several stages and there are to many genes participate in seed developments. When you say fruit abortion that means you skip all steps involved in seed development except embryo desiccation which the responsibility of Lea gens
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