Reproduction in Plants | Science Class 7th

Reproduction in Plants Reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced and there are different modes of reproduction in plants. Flowers are the reproductive parts of the plants. A flower may have either the male part or the female part or both male and female parts. The flowers, which contain either only the pistil or only the stamens are called unisexual flowers, while which contain both stamens and pistil are called bisexual flowers. Reproduction in plants is categorized into two types: Asexual reproduction and Sexual reproduction In asexual reproduction, plants can give rise to new plants without involvement of seeds. Types of asexual reproduction in plants include vegetative propagation, budding, fragmentation and sporulation. Vegetative Propagation is a process through which new plant arise from roots, stems, leaves and buds, without production of seeds or spores. The roots of some plants can also give rise to new plants for e.g. sweet potato. Plants produced by vegetative propagation take less time to grow and bear flowers and fruits earlier than those produced from seeds. Budding is a process in which a small outgrowth called bud develops on one of the vegetative organs. This bud then grows and matures into an adult organism.