Vegetative Propagation

1: Which Plants can be Grown using Vegetative Propagation?

Following are the plants that propagate via vegetative propogation :

• Sweet Potato
• Sugercane
• Banana
• Onion

2. State two Advantages of Vegetative Propagation.

The two advantages of vegetative propagation are:

• Multiple plants can be produced in bulk that are identical to the parent plant.
• The time of cultivation is reduced as compared to the plants being grown from seeds.

3. State two Disadvantages of Vegetative Propagation.

Two disadvantages of vegetative propagation are:

• New varieties of plants cannot be prouced using this technique.
• They are highly disease prone as they are dependent on the parent plant for the gene pool.

4. Define the term ‘Vegetative Propagation’.

Vegetative propagation is the technique to grow plants from other vegetative parts of the plants and not the reproductive parts. These vegetative parts include leaves, roots, and stem.

5. What are the two types of Vegetative Propagation?

The two types of Vegetative Propagation are:-

• Natural Vegetative Propagation
• Artificial Vegetative Propagation

Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new plant grows from the vegetative part of the parent plant instead of the reproductive part i.e. the flower. The produced offspring are vegetative clones of the parent plant i.e. both the parent and offspring are genetically identical without any variation. The vegetative parts that are used in the case of vegetative reproduction are roots, leaves, and stems.

Vegetative propagation can occur naturally or be induced artificially by a technique called Artificial Vegetative Propagation. A common example of vegetative propagation can be seen in a Potato where its ‘Eyes’ act as the vegetative part from which the whole plant can be grown.