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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.2. Artificial vegetative propagation 7 of 11

Question 7

Grafting can be carried out on which plants, and why?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Dicotyledonous plants, because only they have cambium tissue. A graft takes by the cambium of the stock and the cambium of the scion connecting to one another.

No amount of skill will graft a coconut or a banana — both are monocots, and monocots have no cambium, which also disposes of “any flowering plant”. Plants that do not set seed well names a real advantage of grafting, but not a rule about which plants can be grafted.

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