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Q. What is vegetative propagation? Write the methods involved in it. Describe the advantages of Vegetative propagation.​

Answer 1

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This propagation is the formation of new plants of vegetative units for example :- buds, tubers, rhizomes, etc.

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• Natural methods of vegetative propagation.

• Artificial mehods of vegetative propagation.

a) Natural method of Vegetative propagation :- in these methods, vegetative propagules of plants detach from the body of mother develop into new plant under suitable conditions.

Few important example are :- Roots, tubers, bulb etc.

b) Artificial methods of vegetative propagation:- various methods of Vegetative propagation which grow naturally, are used by man in horticulture.

Few important example are :-

Cutting

Layering

Grafting

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• It is the only method of multiplication in seedless plants.

• It provides production of large number of disease - free plants.

Answer 2

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Advantages of vegetative propagation

The main advantage of vegetative propagation methods is that the new plants contain the genetic material of only one parent, so they are essentially clones of the parent plant.