Grace 9.2
Artificial propagation produces the next generation of its genetic or can be called cloning.
It’s useful for the agriculturists and horticulturists to get the best crop. It’s a man-made methods that serves in 3 ways: cutting, layering, grafting, and budding or bud grafting..
Some methods are used in agriculture to raise crops and horticulture (growing vegetables, fruits, flowers).
Cuttings woody and herbaceous plants are usually propagated by cuttings. The part of the plant will be separated by the parent and regenerate itself to form a new plant. I t’s basically removing a piece of the parent plant such as stem, root or leaf and planting it again in other suitable place. First, we have to cut it with sharp blade to reduce injury to the parent plant. But before doing that, dip the cutting tool to a rubbing alcohol to prevent infection or diseases. Then remove flowers and flower buds so that the carbohydrates can be stored for the root. The pieces that are separated from its parent will be dipped in the root hormone and covered with some soil then they will form roots. Usually this stem cutting is use for rose, sugarcane, banana, geranium. Root cutting is for dahlia and leaf cuttings are used for African violets.
Layering
Layering is the method of making certain branches of the parent plant to produce roots by bending or pegging them to the ground around the parent plant. After the roots grow, the branch will be cut off from the parent’s body. The branch that produces the roots is called the layer. It’s a common method in black raspberries, ivy, honeysuckle and tradescantia.
The advantage of ‘layering’ is that it’s good for plants that are difficult to grow from cuttings because with this method the new plant is supplied with water, sugar and minerals from the parent plant. The plant produced are also larger.
Grafting
It is a method of transferring a part of one plant to the stump of another plant. A branch from one tree is (scion)joined with the roots of another (stock)and the two pieces are cut so they will be fit together.The stem with a lot of buds are taken from a plant. This is called scion and it’s selected for the quality of its fruit. The stump which attached to the scion is called the stock and it’s selected to prevent diseases and other bad things.

The advantages and effectiveness of artificial propagation is that it create better plants, quick fruit production and prevent species from becoming extinct. It allows new plants to be produced rapidly because it doesn’t rely on seeds. It’s faster and it helps the organisms to increase. It’s good for the environment because the more people planting plants, the greener the environment and it will helps the world regarding the global warming. It’s efficient because it does not need a lot of attention hours on the growing process.
Effects on Economic, Social, Cultures and Environment.
It effects economically because it is faster and it really helps the agriculturist and horticulturists to raise crops like bananas, sugarcane, potato that do not produce workable seeds. It’s good for them to raise money and to not waste a lot of money with buying the seeds and replacing the failed plants.
It effects socially because usually vegetative propagation need less attention than the plants grown from seeds
. It’s good for the agriculturist to spend time at home and they can use their time wisely to plant another seeds. It also turn other people’s mind about planting because they can easily plant using these methods and it shows more interest in planting plants. It’s also nice for people to have seedless plants like for example eating grapes without seeds
. It’s efficient for people.
It effects on some cultures that having tradition of planting plants and sometimes used as medicine. It has an effect to the environment also because the more plants, the greener this world be and it’s good to help decrease the affects of global warming in this world. It helps to provide more fresh oxygen for humans and it helps the animals also humans to consume fruits, vegetables and medicine from plants.
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