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Anatomy Of Flowering Plants

Question
CBSEENBI11002336

The 'Eyes' of the potato tuber are

  • flower buds

  • shoot buds

  • axillary buds

  • root buds

Solution

C.

axillary buds

Tuber is oval or spherical swollen underground modified stem lacking adventitious roots. It possesses a number of spirally arranged depressions called eyes. Each eye represents node and consists of 1-3 axillary buds in the axils of small scally leaves.