What are the advantages of vegetative propagation?
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Answer:Advantages of vegetative propagation
Quicker and more certain.
Produces identical quality as the parent.
Plants that do not have viable seed, can be reproduced.
Flowers produced are of superior quality.
Desirable character of fruit can be maintained.
The process makes possible the production of seedless varieties such as banana, orange, rose, jasmine etc.
As compared to the plant propagation by seeds, it a rapid, cheap and easier method of plant propagation. For example, certain plants such as lilies which usually take few years to flower can be made to do so within a year by this technique.
It helps in the preservation of useful parent characters in the next generation.
The method can be used for plants which can be easily grown in gardens due to their small size.
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The reproduction of plants by vegetative propagation method has following advantages:-
- The new plants, produced by vegetative propagation, take much less time to grow and bear flowers as compared to plants grown from seeds.
- The new plants, produced by vegetative propagation, exactly resemble the parent plant. So all the desirable features of the parent plant will be present in the new plants.
- Plants propagated vegetatively usually need less attention than plants grown from seeds.