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Understanding Corms in Plant Propagation

The document discusses the two main types of vegetative propagation - natural and artificial. Natural propagation occurs without human involvement through structures like bulbs, tubers, rhizomes, stolons and corms. Artificial propagation is done by humans using methods such as cuttings, grafting, layering, suckering and tissue culture.

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Understanding Corms in Plant Propagation

The document discusses the two main types of vegetative propagation - natural and artificial. Natural propagation occurs without human involvement through structures like bulbs, tubers, rhizomes, stolons and corms. Artificial propagation is done by humans using methods such as cuttings, grafting, layering, suckering and tissue culture.

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Types of Vegetative propagation

Vegetative propagation, a type of asexual reproduction, is categorized mainly into two parts.
These include; natural vegetative propagation and artificial vegetative propagation.

Natural Vegetative propagation

It is a type of vegetative propagation occurring naturally without human obtrusion. It occurs


when the axillary bud grows into the lateral shoot and develops its adventitious roots. Plant
structure that permits natural vegetative propagation via stem
includes; bulbs, tubers, rhizomes, stolons, and corms, while tubers also stretch from
roots, and plantlets emerge from a leaf. The plant structures that undergo natural vegetative
propagation are described below with their examples:

Bulbs in vegetative propagation

Tubers
Rhizomes

Stolons

Corms
Plantlets

Artificial vegetative propagation

It is the type of vegetative reproduction in which new plants are produced from the parent
plants by humans in laboratories or fields. There are various types of artificial vegetative
propagation. These include; cutting, grafting, layering, suckering, and tissue culture.

Cutting
Grafting
Layering

Suckering
Tissue culture

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