2. How do potatoes reproduce? 3. State three advantages of vegetative reproduction?
Dear Student,
2. Potato is an underground modified stem. Potatoes mostly reproduce in vegetative manner.
Potatoes have eyes like structure called nodes or buds.
Shoots that come out from the buds are called sprouts which grow and become stems. They come out after a long period of dormancy. Roots also come out from the buds. The buds become new plants. The part of the stem grows under the soil is called underground stem.
This underground stem starts swelling and transform into tuber or new potato. When the tubers are fully grown the mother plant dies. Nodes of tuber again give rise to buds and new plants as well.
3. The Advantages of Vegetative propagation are as follows:
(1) It is faster, which means the growth is fast and will be uniform.
(2) Only one parent will be required.
(3) The offsprings produced will be genetically identical. In this way the most important traits will be preserved.
Regards.
Dear Student,
2. Potato is an underground modified stem. Potatoes mostly reproduce in vegetative manner.
Potatoes have eyes like structure called nodes or buds.
Shoots that come out from the buds are called sprouts which grow and become stems. They come out after a long period of dormancy. Roots also come out from the buds. The buds become new plants. The part of the stem grows under the soil is called underground stem.
This underground stem starts swelling and transform into tuber or new potato. When the tubers are fully grown the mother plant dies. Nodes of tuber again give rise to buds and new plants as well.
3. The Advantages of Vegetative propagation are as follows:
(1) It is faster, which means the growth is fast and will be uniform.
(2) Only one parent will be required.
(3) The offsprings produced will be genetically identical. In this way the most important traits will be preserved.
Regards.
