NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Agave macroacantha can sexually reproduce by seeds and propagate vegetatively by aerial bulbils and ground-level basal shoots and rhizomes. It forms compact patches apparently generated by the multiplication of ground-level offshoots.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bulbils are small aerial rosettes that occur on the flowering stalks of semelparous Agave plants and in related families, and that are capable of acting as clones of the parent plant.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bulbils are the vegetative buds meant for vegetative propagation seen in Agave. Bulbils are small bulb-like structures, in a particular one in the axil of a leaf, which may fall to form a new plant.

Detailed explanation-4: -Solution : Bulbils are fleshy buds produced in the axil of foliage leaves in place of axillary buds. In century plant (Agave sp.) the floral buds are modified into bulbils which grow into new plants when shed from the mother plant.

Detailed explanation-5: -A bulbil (also referred to as bulbel, bulblet, and/or pup) is a small, young plant that is reproduced vegetatively from axillary buds on the parent plant’s stem or in place of a flower on an inflorescence. These young plants are clones of the parent plant that produced them-they have identical genetic material.