1. Plants

2. Asexual Reproduction Requires only one organism
Offspring will have the same genetic structure as the parents
Not as complex and requires far less energy
Organisms that are genetically identical to their parent are known as clones.

3. Rhizomes Grasses, cattails and sedges
Produce underground stems or rhizomes
Buds produce at the nodes
If dies, a new separate plant will form

4. Rhizome

5. Tubers Modified rhizomes Irish potatoes
Specialized stem branches grow down into the ground and swell with starch cells
Buds will grow into new plants
Buds are commonly termed “eyes”

6. Tubers

7. Runners Horizontally growing stems produce few leaves
The stems run along the ground
Runners can be cut from the parent plant
Wild strawberry and spider plant

8. Runners

9. Cuttings
Vegetative plants that have been removed and rooted in soil or other suitable material
Made from stems, roots or leaves
Geranium, Coleus, African violet

10. Cuttings

11. Bulbs Onions, chives and lilies
Very short stem surrounded by fleshy leaves
In the spring the shoot apex begins to grow using the nutrients stored in the leaves

12. Bulbs

13. Corms Similar to bulbs except that there are no storage leaves
Nutrients are stored in the swollen stem

14. Corms

15. Cell Culture
Sometimes just one cell can regenerate into an entire plant
One cell from a carrot taproot is put into a tube of water with plant nutrients
The one cell divides and forms a bunch of cells
The small carrot plant will from into a carrot identical to the carrot from which the one cell came

16. Cell Culture

17. Tissue Culture Engineered cells of plants
Petunias, tobacco and tomatoes
Place the engineered cell in an environment with special hormones and nutrients that encourage growth
Tissue culture will form leaves and roots and finally and entire plant will grow.

18. Tissue Culture