FRST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Apomixis, Stolon, Sporophyte
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Asexual reproduction in plants can: layering, if you have a tree or a plant with a broad canopy near the ground, snow will pack on and push the branches down and to touch the ground, then if it is like that for long enough roots will form from that branch forming another tree, sprouting and suckering, adventitious buds germinate and shoots sprout from stumps or suckers/also shoots sprouting from roots, basically sprouting from roots or stump, rooted cuttings (from shoots, root formation on cuttings, possible scenario. Puts down roots and then a plant grows from the stem: corms: are short, thickened vertical underground stems fro which plants can regenerate, bulbs: are specialized buds with thickened fleshy modified leaved, tubers, apomixis, the production of seed without fertilization, basically cloning its self, seeds have the advantage of being animal disperse in fruit but only a single plant is needed to reproduce.
