HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

FUNDAMENTALS OF HORTICULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Propagating nursery plants using a piece of stem or root is known as:
A
cutting
B
grafting
C
layering
D
budding
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It is also called ‘vegetative propagation’. The vegetative parts of a plant like leaf, stem, root or their modified forms are used for propagation. Most of the horticultural crops are commercially propagated by vegetative or asexual method of propagation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cuttings. Many types of plants, both woody and herbaceous, are frequently propagated by cuttings. A cutting is a vegetative plant part which is severed from the parent plant in order to regenerate itself, thereby forming a whole new plant. Take cuttings with a sharp blade to reduce injury to the parent plant.

Detailed explanation-3: -cutting, In botany, a plant section originating from the stem, leaf, or root and capable of developing into a new plant. The cutting is usually placed in warm, moist sand.

Detailed explanation-4: -Propagation /prɒpəˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n/-the breeding of specimens of a plant by natural processes from the parent stock, “the propagation of plants by root cuttings".

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