ASEXUAL AND

SEXUAL
PROPAGATION
Session 3
Presenter: Mary Jane T. Dagusen
SESSION LEARNING OBJECTIVES

-Understand the basic principles of sexual and

asexual propagation
-Be familiar with common methods of
sexually and asexually propagating plants.
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 S P L A N T
WH AT I ?
A G AT I ON
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PLANT PROPAGATION

-is the process of producing a new plant from

an existing one.
"Plant Propagation is both an art and
science"
TWO GENERAL TYPES OF PLANT
PROPAGATION

Sexual propagation
and
Asexual propagation
 TWO GENERAL TYPES OF PLANT
PROPAGATION

• Sexual propagation is the reproduction of plants by seeds and

spores.
 SEXUAL PROPAGATION BY SEEDS

Plants that produce seeds are called SPERMATOPHYTES

 PROPAGATING FERNS BY SPORES

Sexual propagation also includes growth from spores. Spores

are tiny dust-like seeds that grow on SPOROPHYTES, plants
that produce spores as means of reproduction.
 ADVANTAGES OF SEXUAL
PROPAGATION :

· It may result · It provides a way

in new cultivars to avoid
· For some transmission of
· It may be and vigorous plants, it may particular diseases, • It maintains
quicker and more hybrids. be the only such as viruses. genetic
economical than means of variation
asexual propagation.
propagation.
 Sexual Propagation : Tips for choosing and
handling
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• To obtain vigorous plants from seeds, start with high-quality

seeds from a reliable source.
• Purchase only enough seed for one year or for your purpose

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 Sexual Propagation : Tips
ALL ABOUT ME for choosing and
handling seeds

• If seeds are obtained well ahead of the actual sowing date (or
are surplus seeds), store them in a cool, dry place.
• Gardeners can save money and cultivate a rewarding hobby
by saving seeds from plants in their own gardens.

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 Enumerate 5 plants from
the song Bahay Kubo that
can be propagated
sexually.
 TWO GENERAL TYPES OF PLANT
PROPAGATION

2. Asexual propagation is sometimes referred to as vegetative

propagation, involves taking vegetative parts of a plant (stems,
roots, and/or leaves) and causing them to regenerate into a new
plant or, in some cases, several plants.
 MAJOR METHODS OF ASEXUAL
PROPAGATION

CUTTINGS: involve rooting a severed piece of the parent plant.

Cuttings can be made from stems, roots, leaves, or combinations of
plant parts
STEM CUTTINGS:
-Stem cuttings consist of just the growing tip of a plant or stem
sections below the tip (Tip, Medial and Cane)
LEAF CUTTINGS:
-
 ROOT
CUTTING :
 MAJOR METHODS OF ASEXUAL
PROPAGATION
LAYERING-Stems
still attached to their
parent plants may
form roots where they
touch a rooting
medium.
 MAJOR METHODS OF ASEXUAL
PROPAGATION
DIVISION- Plants with
more than one rooted
crown may be divided
and the crowns planted
separately.
 MAJOR METHODS OF ASEXUAL
PROPAGATION
SEPARATION- is a
term applied to a form
of propagation by
which plants that
produce bulbs or corms
multiply.
 MAJOR METHODS OF ASEXUAL
PROPAGATION
GRAFTING and
BUDDING are
methods of asexual
plant propagation that
join plant parts so they
will grow as one plant.
 GENERAL GUIDELINES IN CUTTING

• Take cuttings with a sharp blade to reduce injury to the parent

plant.
• Dip the cutting tool in rubbing alcohol or a mixture of one part
bleach : nine parts water to prevent transmitting diseases from
infected plant parts to healthy ones.
 GENERAL GUIDELINES IN CUTTING
• Remove flowers and flower buds from cuttings to allow the
cutting to use its energy and stored carbohydrates for root and
shoot formation rather than fruit and seed production.
• To hasten rooting, increase the number of roots, or to obtain
uniform rooting (except on soft, fleshy stems), use a rooting
hormone, preferably one containing a fungicide.
 GENERAL GUIDELINES IN CUTTING

• Prevent possible contamination of the entire supply of rooting

hormone by putting some in a separate container for dipping
cuttings.
• In general, the rooting medium should be sterile, low in
fertility, drain well enough to provide oxygen, and retain
enough moisture to prevent water stress.
 GENERAL GUIDELINES IN CUTTING

• Place stem and leaf cuttings in bright, indirect light. Root

cuttings can be kept in the dark until new shoots appear.
 ADVANTAGES OF ASEXUAL
PROPAGATION :

· It allows
· It may be the propagation of
only way to · It maintains special types of
• It may be perpetuate the juvenile or growth, such as
easier and particular adult weeping or • It may more
faster than cultivars. characteristics pendulous forms. quickly result in
sexual of certain a large plant
propagation cultivars.
for some
species.
 Bring me!

a. Look around for a plant that can be propagated.

b. Type in the chat box the name of the plant and what

method of propagation can be used.

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