Question

If a farmer inserts a piece of stem containing 3 to 4 vegetative buds onto the stem of the plant that will serve as the root system for the unified plant he is using the vegetative propagation technique called



Cutting

Grafting

Budding

Layering

Answer 1

The technique being described is **Grafting**. In grafting, a piece of stem containing one or more buds (known as the scion) is inserted onto the root system of another plant (known as the rootstock) to form a unified plant. The other options represent different methods of vegetative propagation:

- **Cutting** involves taking a piece of a plant (stem, leaf, or root) and allowing it to develop roots.
- **Budding** is a type of grafting where a single bud is inserted into the rootstock.
- **Layering** involves inducing roots to form on a stem while it is still attached to the parent plant.

So the correct answer is **Grafting**.