The invention relates to parthenocarpic tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum
Mill.) which are grown from seeds, which are smaller than wild tomatoes
and which, when ripe, display a more intense red colour than wild
tomatoes. The tomatoes are obtained by cultivating a transgenic tomato
plant which produces said parthenocarpic tomatoes and which is obtained
using a method consisting in: (a) introducing a DNA construction into a
cell or tissue of a tomato plant, said construction comprising (i) the
pea END1 gene promoter or a functional fragment of same and (ii) a
cytotoxic gene which is functionally bound to the aforementioned promoter
or fragment of same; and (b) regenerating the tomato plant cell or tissue
transformed in step (a) in order to produce a transgenic tomato plant
that produces parthenocarpic tomatoes. The invention is suitable for use
in food and agrifood industries.