1. Asexual reproduction allows plants to clone themselves without combining gametes. Offspring are identical to the parent plant. 2. Natural vegetative propagation occurs without human intervention through structures like bulbs, rhizomes, stolons, tubers, and corms that allow new plants to grow. 3. Artificial vegetative propagation is done by humans, such as through cuttings, layering, grafting, tissue culture, and marcotting to propagate plants faster or for experimental purposes.

1. Asexual
Reproduction of
Plants
SIR MICHAEL ANGEL S. SAJOT
Grade V

2. Asexual Reproduction?
Asexual Reproduction is the reproduction of
new plants from the cells of a single parent. It
does not involve the fusion of gametes. Since
there is only one parent, the offspring are
clones of the parent. This process is called
vegetative propagation or vegetative
reproduction.

3. Natural Vegetative Propagation
Natural Vegetative Propagation occurs
without help from man or from artificially-
induced means. It is the plant’s means of
surviving through the natural perpetuation
of its kind.

4. Natural Vegetative Propagation
1. Bulbs have short stem base surrounded
by fleshy leaves which store food for regular
green and narrow leaves found above the
ground. It produces lateral side buds that
may grow into new plants.

6. Natural Vegetative Propagation
2. Rhizomes are underground stem (roots-
like stem) that grow sideward beneath the
soil surface. They have nodes and buds
which grow into new plantlets.

8. Natural Vegetative Propagation
3. Stolons are runners from stems that grow
above the ground. Tiny plantlets form along
the stolon, and roots form where they touch
the ground. The plantlets become
independent when their connection with the
parent plant breaks.

10. Natural Vegetative Propagation
4. Tubers are swollen portions of an
underground stem which bears buds,
commonly known as eyes. The eyes produce
shoots that grow into a new plant.

12. Natural Vegetative Propagation
5. Corms are short, vertical, swollen
underground plant stems that serve as
storage organs of some plants to survive in
adverse conditions. Corms like bulbs, but
when cut in half, they are solid while bulbs
are made up of layers when cut in half.

14. Artificial Vegetative Propagation
Artificial Vegetative Propagation does not
occur naturally. It ensure plant health, fatser
production rate, or for expirementation. The
process involves taking a piece of the parent
plant and causing it to regenerate itself to a
new plant.

15. Methods of Artificial Vegetative
Propagation
1. Cuttings are pieces that have been cut off from a
mother plant and then allowed to grow into a whole
plant.
1. Leaf cutting – lily, sweet potato and kataka-taka
2. Stem cutting – bamboo, black pepper, cacao,
cassava, coffee, eggplant, grapes and guava
3. Root cutting – blackberry, fig and lilac

17. Methods of Artificial Vegetative
Propagation
2. Layering is a method of plant
propagation in which a bent stem is
covered with soil in order to generate
new roots.

19. Methods of Artificial Vegetative
Propagation
3. Grafting uses two plant species.
Part of the stem of the desirable plant
called scion is inserted onto a slit on
the stem of a rooted plant called
stock.

21. Methods of Artificial Vegetative
Propagation
4. Tissue Culture or
Micropropagation is a process of
propagating a large number of plants
from a single plant in such a short
time under laboratory conditions

23. Methods of Artificial Vegetative
Propagation
5. Marcotting also known as air
layering is a type of plant
propagation that involves rooting of
part of a stem while it is still
attached to the parent plant.