Fertilisation independent fruit formation in eggplant

An eggplant seed capable of growing into a plant that is cytoplasmic male sterile and which plant produces eggplant fruit without fertilization, which seed is the result of a cross between a mother plant and a father plant that is optionally parthenocarpic,

• wherein the mother plant is a plant grown from seeds of deposit NCIMB 42053,
• wherein the mother plant is cytoplasmic male sterile and produces eggplant fruit without fertilization;
• and
• wherein the fruit of the plant grown from said seed do not show negative pleiotropic effects.