oral practice quiz
1. Mention six advantages of Asexual propagation 1. There is no variation between the plant grown and plant from which it is grown. As such, the plants are uniform in growth and yielding capacity. In case of fruit trees, uniformity in fruit quality makes harvesting and marketing easy. 2. Seedless varieties of fruits can only be propagated vegetatively e.g. grapes, pomegranates and lemon. 3. Plants start bearing earlier as compared to seedling trees. 4. Budding or grafting encourages disease-resistant varieties of plants. 5. Modifying influence of root-stocks on scion can be availed of. 6. Inferior or unsuitable varieties can be over-looked. 2. Outline ten General factors to consider when harvesting/collecting drugs from medicinal plants a. Underground organs are collected when aerial parts die down b. Leaves are collected ...