PLANT REPRODUCTION

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Way of plants reproduction
Plants needed to reproduce in order to avoid extinction.

There are multiple ways of plant reproduction:-

1. Seeds

Plant that reproduces through seeds.

Watermelon
Guava
Chili
Tomato
Papaya
2. Spores

Non-flowering plants that reproduce through spores.

Mosses
Mushroom
Fern

3. Underground stem

Underground stem that will bud and form a new tree.

Potato
Carrot
Ginger
Onion
4. Leaves

Plants that reproduce through parents' leaves.

Aloe vera
Setawar tree

5. Stem cutting

When the stem of the plant can reproduce a new plant after being planted.

Sugarcane
Cassava

6. Sucker

Saplings around the parent tree can grow into new trees.

Pineapple
Bamboo
Banana tree
Importance of plant reproduction

Plants always reproduce to increase their numbers and maintain their species.

A species is a group of living things that have the same nature or type.
Single plant, different ways of reproduction

There are plants that have multiple ways of reproductions.

For examples:-

First ways of The second way of

Plants reproduction reproduction

1. Water spinach Stem cutting Seeds

2. Tapioca Stem cutting Underground stem
3 Banana tree Sucker Seeds
4. Hibiscus tree Stem cutting Seeds
The technology of plant reproduction

Other than the conventional way of plant reproduction, we can breed plant by using
new technology.

The commonly used technology in plant reproduction are:-

1. Tissue culture

- Produce new plants from the tissue of a parent plant that is placed inside a nutrient
medium.

2. Marcottage

- Marcottage can increase the number of plants without planting the seeds.