THE VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTIVE

ORGANS OF A PLANT
GROUP MEMBERS
KADIAN GORDON
SHANNAKAY MCCARTHY
NATALIE COLE
ANNETTE WILLIAMS
SANDRENE FRANCIS
WHAT ARE THE VEGETATIVE ORGANS OF A
PLANTS?

The Vegetative organs of a plant includes the root,

stem, buds, and leaf. Vegetative organs are often used
in asexual form of reproduction such as cuttings,
budding, or grafting.
 ADVANTAGES OF VEGETATIVE
REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
Plants produced by vegetative propagation take less
time to grow and bear flowers and fruits earlier than
those produced from seeds. The new plants are exact
copies of the parent plant, as they are produced from a
single parent.
 CUTTING

Cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture

for vegetative (asexual) propagation. A piece of the stem
or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium
such as moist soil. A stem cutting produces new roots,
and a root cutting produces new stems.
PICTURE OF
CUTTING
 GRAFTING

Grafting and budding are horticultural techniques used

to join parts from two or more plants so that they appear
to grow as a single plant. In grafting, the upper part
(scion) of one plant grows on the root system
(rootstock) of another plant. In the budding process, a
bud is taken from one plant and grown on another. . This
process reproduces asexually.
PICTURE OF GRAFTING
 IMPORTANCE OF GRAFTING
Grafting is used for a variety of purposes which includes;
to repair injured trees, to produce dwarf trees and shrubs, to
strengthen plants' resistance to certain diseases, to retain
varietal characteristics, to adapt varieties to adverse soil or
climatic conditions, to ensure pollination, to produce multi-
fruited or multiflowered plants, and to propagate certain
species (such as hybrid roses) that can be propagated in no
other way. 
 STEPS IN GRAFTING

1.
Step 1: Vertical Incisions. Make four 3-inch vertical
incisions through the rootstock's bark, starting at the top. ...
2.
Step 2: Prepare the Scion. ...
3.
Step 3: Connect Scion and Rootstock. ...
4.
Step 4: Secure the Graft. ...
5.
Step 5: Protect the Graft. ...
6.
Step 6: Secure the Plastic.
TISSUE CULTURE

For tissue culture, the plant cells from different parts of a plant are cultured in
the laboratory to develop a new plant. This technique is helpful in increasing the
number of rare and endangered plant species that are unable to grow under natural
conditions. It makes use of parts of a plant to generate multiple copies of the plant
in a very short duration. 
USES OF PLANT TISSUE CULTURE

Tissue culture is used to develop thousands of genetically identical plants from

one single parent plant known as somaclones, and this process is known as
micropropagation. The method offers an advantage over other methods as it can be
used to develop disease free plants from disease-rode plants
EXAMPLES OF TISSUE CULTURE

 it has been used extensively for the production of commercially important plants
including food plants like tomato, banana, apple etc.
PROCESS
OF TISSUE
CULTURE
LAYERING

Layering is a means of plant propagation in which a portion of an

above-ground stem grows roots while still attached to the parent plant

and then detaches as an independent plant. Layering has evolved as a

common means of vegetative propagation of numerous species in

natural environments.
TYPES OF LAYERING

Ground/simple layering- This is type of layering whereby the original

plants are set in the ground with the stem nearly horizontal, which

forces side buds to grow upward. At the end of the growing season, the

side branches will have rooted and can be separated while the plant is

dormant.
TYPE OF LAYERING

Air layering- Air layering is done by peeling the bark from the middle of a

branch and covering this exposed wood with moss and plastic wrap. Roots will

form inside the moss and you can cut the rooted tip from the plant. It is useful

for plants that are hard to propagate by cuttings or if you want your new plant

to have a larger size than could be accomplished by taking cuttings.

PICTURE OF
LAYERING
PLANT
LEAF BRYOPHYLLUM

Reproduction in Bryophyllum occurs asexually through vegetative

propagation by leaves. In Bryophyllum, it takes place through leaf buds. The leaf of the

Bryophyllum is broad and has several notches. The notch has buds which are known as

epiphyllous buds which fall on the soil and germinates to form a new plant. It forms The

bud has an adventitious root which helps in the anchorage.

PICTURES OF LEAF
BRYOPHYLLUM
TUBERS

Tubers, such as potatoes, are fleshy underground storage structures composed of

enlarged parts of the stem. A tuber functions in asexual propagation as a result of the tiny

scale leaves equipped with buds that grow on its surface. Each of these buds can form a

new plant, genetically identical to the parent.

TUBERS

Tubers are underground food stores which stores food over the winter and provides a

new plant with food until it can make its own. Food made by the new plant is sent to make

new tubers. Thereby reproducing itself. Examples: potato, artichoke, yam, cassava, water

chestnut
PICTURE OF
TUBER
WATCH VIDEO TO FIND OUT THE NAMES AND
FUNCTIONS OF THE VEGETATIVE PARTS OF
PLANTS.
 QUESTIONS

1. What is vegetative reproduction?

2. What term is given to the process by which plants produce food?
3. What
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