Explain four advantages of vegetative propagation.
Answer:
- New plants produced by vegetative propagation maintain the desirable characters of the parents. These plants are genetically identical.
- Certain plants like banana, grapes, pineapple, roses, jasmine, etc., do not form seeds. Thus, this is the only method of reproduction and continuation of such species.
- This method is cheap and can be easily employed to reproduce plants, especially fruit plants.
- Only one parent is required for reproduction.