what are the disadvantages and advantages of vegetative reproduction
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Answer: Advantages and Disadvantages of Vegetative Propagation are as follows:
ADVANTAGES
1.Faster and more certain method of propagation.
2.New individuals produced have exactly identical qualities as their parents. This preserves the characteristics of food and flower crops.
3.Can be used to reproduce plants that do not have viable seeds.
4.The flowers produced are of a superior quality.
5.Certain desirable characteristics present in the fruit can be maintained.
DISADVANTAGES
1.Does not produce new varieties.
2.Leads to overcrowding around the parent plant.
3.Very little possibility of dispersal.
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Answer:
Explanation:Advantages of vegetative propagation.
1. It is a method of multiplying plants.
2. Vegetatively propagated plant require less time to mature and bear more fruits, that those grown from the seeds.
3. The new plants are exact copies of parent plants as they are produced from a single parent so all the desired quality of parent plants can be obtained in a new plant.
4. Even seedless plants like Banana sugarcane and pineapple are easily grown by this method.
5. Plants developed by vegetative propagation in really need less attention than plants grown from seeds.
Disadvantages of vegetative propagation in plants.
1. Diseases present in plants spread to all daughter plant.
2. Vegetative propagules cannot be stored like seeds.
3. Due to production of number of plant will be restricted region vegetative propagation causes overcrowding.
4. Vegetatively propagated plants are unable to adapt in changing environment.