Question

What is vegetative propagation? List with brief explanation three advantages of practising this process for growing some types of plants. Select two plants from the following which are grown by this process:
Banana, Wheat, Mustard, Jasmine, Gram.

Answer 1

Vegetative reproduction is the plant’s ability to reproduce by producing new plants from vegetative plant parts such as roots, stem, and leaves.
Advantages of vegetative reproduction

• The plants (like banana, seedless grapes, rose, etc) that cannot produce viable seeds can be propagated with the help of vegetative propagation.

• Vegetative propagation is  helpful in obtaining genetically identical copies of a plant in order to preserve the selected varieties.

• It is a rapid, easier and less expensive method of reproduction.

• Vegetative propagation is suitable for the plants with small number of seeds or higher periods of seed dormancy.

Among the given plants, Banana and Jasmine can be grown by vegetative propagation.