HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Some tubers like that potato have buds sprout out from the tuber. These buds are known as eyes. These buds develop and grow into a new plant.

Detailed explanation-2: -axillary buds. The tuber is an oval or spherical swollen underground modified stems lacking adventitious roots. It possesses a number of spirally arranged depressions called eyes. Each eye represents node and consists of 1-3 axillary buds in the axils of small scaly leaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Axillary buds. Underground stems of some plants are modified to store food in them. The tuber has all the parts of a normal stem, including nodes and internodes. The “eyes” of a potato are axillary buds formed in the axils of scalelike leaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -The eye of the potato is the same as the bud is to Bryophyllum leaf. Both the structures are vegetative propagules. They can form a new plant from them. This method of asexual reproduction through the vegetative parts of the existing pant is known as vegetative propagation.

Detailed explanation-5: -In potatoes, each eye represents a node in the stem as the potatoes are modified stems. New stems are developed from these eyes because these are axillary buds and capable of giving rise to new branches. The terminal bud is another name often used to represent these buds.