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Crops that reproduce vegetatively, such as bananas, will be maintained.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

Honeysuckle is not solely dependent upon sexual reproduction, though; the aggressive vine reproduces vegetatively as well, easily rooting where its stems contact the ground.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2016

“It’s like a lot of plants, where there’s a natural mutation and they change their morphology. “It’s naturally cloning; all of the plants are vegetatively growing,” he said.

From Washington Times • Apr. 3, 2016

Tree species like the aspen propagate vegetatively, resulting in stands of genetically identical trees Genetically identical forest trees raised in different environments react differently when exposed to drought conditions, a study has shown.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2011

A process of budding which in the yeast plant and in mosses is merely vegetatively reproductive, in fungi becomes truly reproductive, namely, the buds are special cells arising from other special cells of the hyphæ.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various