Tomatoes and eggplants are fruits. Fruits usually include seeds. In some instances, however, fruit and seed development can occur without fertilization. In some cases plants that set fruit of this type have been selected because they mature fruits spontaneously without fertilization. Table 4-1 in the text outlines this.
Simple fruits can be indehiscent or dehiscent.
Dry fruits and their seeds are usually dispersed by wind, water, or gravity. In grains or caryopses the seed coat is fused to the ovary wall. In other fruits, the pericarp layers are fleshy. If the fruit is produced by a single superior ovary within a flower, the fruit is a berry. Berries may contain one or more seeds.