What are the advantages of vegetative propagation ?
A. 1) Vegetative propagation helps to maintain fixed qualities and characteristic features
’ of the parent plant.
2) It takes less time to grow plant through vegetative propagation.
3) Vegetative reproduction offers a uniform root stock for budding and grafting. This root stock can be selected from a plant that is immune to diseases.
4) In vegetative propagation it would be possible to develop new varieties with useful characters.
5) Vegetative reproduction is a very useful method of reproduction in plants that rarely produce flowers. ,