Correct option:(C)Cutting
Solution:
- Artificial vegetative propagation is used for reproduction of plants that produce few seeds or nonviable seeds.
- Various methods of artificial vegetative propagation like grafting, cutting, layering, micropropagation.
- Grafting is method of artificial propagation in which stem of one plant is attached to root of another plant.
- Cutting is a method of artificial propagation in which stem containing nodes and internodes are planted into the soil.
- In micropropagation, plant tissue culture is used to produce large number of progeny plants.
- In layering, stem is bent closed to soil and is covered with the soil.
- So, cutting is the most convenient and cheap method of artificial propagation.