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Appearance of vegetative propagules from the nodes of plants such as sugarcane and ginger is mainly because. (A) Nodes are shorter than internodes (B) Nodes have meristematic cells (C) Nodes are located near the soil (D) Nodes have non - photosynthetic cells

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Nodes are shorter than internodes

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Nodes have meristematic cells

C

Nodes are located near the soil

D

Nodes have non - photosynthetic cells

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Appearance of vegetative propagules from the nodes of plants such as sugarcane and ginger is mainly because meristematic cells are located in nodes. Examples of vegetative propagules : (i) Leaf buds of Bryophyllum, (ii) Eyes of potato, (iii) Bulbils of Agave, (iv) Offset of water hyacinth, (v) Rhizome of ginger.
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