Some crops such as common bananas and sugar cane are sterile as they produce no viable seeds, so both have to be clonally propagated by planting cuttings. Pota

Some crops such as common bananas and sugar cane are sterile as they produce no viable seeds, so both have to be clonally propagated by planting cuttings. Potatoes can be grown from both seeds and cut tubers but the former is usually avoided because the potato genome is very complex and sexually produced potatoes tend to segregate into multiple phenotypes which usually reduces yield,hence it is rare to grow potato from seeds outside R&D. A lot of fruit fall under the same category as their traits are rather unstable if reproduced sexually. Staple food crops such as wheat and rice does not suffer from this issue because they have been selected for much longer and their physiology is much more amenable to plant seeds.