A History of Agriculture in India v1.c23.s6.2

v1.c23.s6.2

Sauer is of the view that the earliest agriculture was by vegetative propagation of parts of plants. He states, 'The creative curiosity of man in the monsoon lands has operated strongly with asexual plant reproduction. Multiplication and selection is from clones. A piece of a plant is set into the ground to make a new plant. This may be by an offset or sprout from the parent, by dividing a root stock, by a stem cutting, or by a piece of underground stem or tuber. An individual plant is divided and multiplied indefinitely.'