DENDROLOGY

TREE PROPAGATION AND PLANTING

VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which plants can form new plants from their roots?
A
Ginger
B
Sweet potato
C
Potato
D
Bermuda grass
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Plants such as sweet potato and carrot give rise to new plants from their fleshy roots. This type of reproduction is vegetative type (asexual method of reproduction).

Detailed explanation-2: -The roots of some plants like sweet potatoes have adventitious buds that develop into new plants by breaking off from the root. The vegetative propagation in sweet potato takes place by the roots which produce shoots or producing buds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Slips are shoots grown from a mature sweet potato.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sweet potato gives rise to adventitious buds which when detached can give rise to a new plants .

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