Plant Reproduction

Plant reproduction

Plants reproduce differently by type and technology can also be used to propagate plants.

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Plant reproduction

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:-

	Plants	First ways of reproduction	The second way of 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.

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