Plant Reproduction & Nutrient Needs

Producing new plants from parts of a plant

• Sexual Reproduction

• Asexual Reproduction

• Pollination

Cuttings are an example of what kind of reproduction

• Asexual

• Sexual

Splitting apart a root or root system into two or more pieces which each become a new plant

• Layering

• Tissue culture

• Separation & division

Segments of leaves, stems, or roots are cut off and then placed into growing media to develop into new plants

• Cutting

• Grafting

• Layering

The upper part of one plant is joined to the lower part of another so they grow as one plant

• Tissue culture

• Grafting

• Layering

Part of a stem or tip that is still attached to the parent plant is covered in soil or media until adventitious roots form

• Layering

• Grafting

• Cutting

Entire new plants are grown from small pieces of plant tissue placed in an artificial growing media under sterile conditions

• Cuttings

• Grafting

• Tissue culture

The transfer of pollen grains from the male part of the flower to the female part

• Self pollination

• Pollination

• Cross pollination

Plants that have incomplete flowers require pollinators to transfer the pollen to another plant

• Cross polination

• Pollination

• Self pollination

Plants with complete flowers the pollen falls from the anther onto its own stigma

• Pollination

• Cross pollination

• Self pollination