What are examples of artificial reproduction in plants?

Answer 1

Man-made methods of vegetative reproduction are usually enhancements of natural processes, but range from simple cloning such as rooting of cuttings to grafting and artificial propagation by laboratory tissue cloning. It is very commonly practised to propagate cultivars with individual desirable characteristics. Fruit tree propagation is frequently performed by budding or grafting desirable cultivars (clones), onto rootstocks that are also clones, propagated by layering.

In horticulture, a "cutting" is a branch that has been cut off from a mother plant below an inter node and then rooted, often with the help of a rooting liquid or powder containing hormones. When a full root has formed and leaves begin to sprout anew, the clone is a self-sufficient plant, genetically identical to the mother plant. Examples are cutting from the stems of blackberries (Rubus occidentalis), cutting from leaves of African violets (Saintpaulia), and cutting the stems of verbenas (Verbena) to create new plants. A related form of regeneration is that of grafting. This is a process of taking a bud and grafting onto a plants stem. Many nurseries now sell trees that can produce four or more varieties of apples (Malus spp.) from stems grafted to a common rootstock.

Answer 2

Some examples of artificial reproduction in plants include tissue culture, where plant cells are grown on a nutrient medium to produce new plants; grafting, where tissues from one plant are fused onto another to create a new plant with desirable traits; and micropropagation, a method of cloning plants using small pieces of plant tissue in a laboratory setting.

Answer 3

cloning and artificial insemination/artificial breeding are all i can think of atm.

Answer 4

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