Eyes of potato are useful for

Q. Eyes of potato are useful for

1. Nutrition
2. Respiration
3. Reproduction
4. Vegetative propagation

Answer: Vegetative Propagation

Eyes of Potato

• Potato plants are perennials that grow low to the ground like vines. They have heart-shaped or oval leaves and small purple or white flowers. Wild potato plants also produce small, inedible green berries as fruit.
• The part we know as the potato, though, grows underground. It's called a tuber, and it grows from the end of underground stems below the roots of the plant.
• Each tuber or potato has several buds. These are the small sprouts we call potato “eyes."
• Vegetative propagation is a type of asexual reproduction in which new plants are produced from roots, stems, leaves, and buds. Since reproduction is through the vegetative parts of the plant, it is known as vegetative propagation.

The ‘eye’ of the potato and the buds in the margin of leaves of Bryophyllum plant can produce new plants by vegetative propagation. Plants produced from vegetative propagation takes less time to grow when compared to the plants produced from seeds.