Question

What is meant by vegetative propagation? Name the vegetative parts through which potato and bryophyllum reproduce.

Answer 1

Vegetative reproduction is a type of asexual reproduction in which new plants are formed from the vegetative parts like, tubers, runners, suckers, rhizomes etc. There is no role of spores and seed formation for the production of new plant in this process. Potato is a stem tuber growing undergrounnd whcih have sevearl buds called eyes. These buds develop into new plants when buries under the soil. Bryophyllum propagates vegetatively by the formation of leaf buds on the margins of a leaf. When the buds come in contact with the soil, each of them grow into a new plant.