The "Eyes" of the potato tuber are:

axillary buds

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root buds

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flower buds

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shoot buds

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Solution

The correct option is A
axillary buds

The tuber is an oval or spherical swollen underground modified stems lacking adventitious roots. It possesses a number of spirally arranged depressions called eyes. Each eye represents node and consists of 1-3 axillary buds in the axils of small scaly leaves.

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