Vegetative Propagation

Question 1

Rhizomes

Answer 1

These are stem structures which grow underground horizontally from the parent plant. They have nodes which new shoots and roots can develop.

Question 2

Stolons

Answer 2

Grow above ground. New shoots and roots can develop from nodes, or from the end of the stolon.

Strawberry plant

Question 3

Suckers

Answer 3

Shoots that grow from sucker plants (undeveloped shoots) present on the shallow rots of a parent plant.

Elm tree

Question 4

Tubers

Answer 4

Act as a food store for the plant. They are covered in eyes and each eye is able to sprout and form a new plant.

Potato

Question 5

Bulbs

Answer 5

Underground food stores. New bulbs develop from the original bulb and form new individual plants.

Onion

Question 6

Split vein cutting

Answer 6

Remove a complete leaf and score the large veins on the lower leaf surface using a scalpel. Put it ontop of growth medium face down.

Question 7

Root cutting

Answer 7

One straight cut on the root. Other end slanted cut.

Question 8

What is micropropagation and why is it different

Answer 8

Not natural. It’s artificial.

Is when tissue culture is used to produce lots of clones plants very quickly.