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Q. The "Eyes" of the potato tuber are

AIPMTAIPMT 2011Morphology of Flowering Plants

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Potato is the common example of stem-tuber. It stores starch as reserve food material. The potato- tubers are used for vegetative propagation. These possess axillary buds over their nodes or eyes. The buds produce new plantlets when a stem-tuber or a part of it having an eye is placed in the soil.