'Fertilisation is not an obligatory event for fruit production in certain plants'. Explain the statement.

(N/A) The statement refers to the biological phenomenon known as $Parthenocarpy$.
In certain plants,fruits develop from the ovary without the process of fertilisation.
Since fertilisation involves the fusion of male and female gametes to form a zygote,its absence means these fruits are typically seedless.
Examples of naturally occurring parthenocarpic fruits include bananas.
In agricultural practices,$Parthenocarpy$ can be induced artificially by the application of growth hormones like $Auxins$ and $Gibberellins$ to the flowers,which stimulates the ovary to develop into a fruit without fertilisation.