can you show me what are runners, rhizom,sucker,tuber,offset mechanism of vegetative reproduction by a video or diagram?
Modification of Stem:
- Tuber – The lower leaf axils give underground branches which swell up to produce tuber. Buds are present as eyes which can give rise to new plants. E.g. potato.
- Runner– It is produced from the axillary bud of leaf and creeps along the ground. E.g dog grass.
- Sucker– It produces from the underground part of the stem and bears adventitious roots. E.g. Chrysanthemum.
- Rhizome – The thick stem part is underground bearing nodes, internodes, buds and scale leaves.
- E.g. Ginger, turmeric.
- Offset mechanism - It is a short, thick runner like projection that gives rise to new plants at its tips. It can grow in all direction from the parent plant.