Question

Ramesh dissected a large potato tuber into several pieces and then placed each piece in a seperate pot for germination . After a few days, he observed yhat a few pieces germinated and developed new plants . The others did not germinate at all. Give the possible reasons

Answer 1

Dear Student,

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.

So, the possible reasons why some parts of the potato did not germinate are:

1. The parts that did not germinate lacked the eye-like structure called buds.

2. The potato parts that had not germinated may have not received favourable conditions for germination, like moisture , etc.

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