What are the advantages of vegetative reproduction? *
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Vegetative Propagation
For propagation of plants that produce little or no viable seeds
Many fruits are cross pollinated, so to provide consistent quality without variation vegetative propagation is preferred
Most often easier, rapid and more economical method
Flowering period is short compared to seed propagated plants
Method of choice in propagating plants in unfavourable environmental condition
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The various advantages of vegetative reproduction are as follows:
(a) It allows the plant producers to produce new plants quickly.
(b) It produces exact replicas of the parent plant. One can produce exact copies of a plant with the required
characteristics, such as resistance to disease.
(c) It requires less attention than plants grown from seeds in the early stages of growth.
(d) It helps to develop new varieties of plants having required characteristics.