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Q.Grafting is not possible in monocotyledons because

(a) vascular bundles are endarch
(b) vascular bundles are exarch
(c) vascular bundles are closed
(d) vascular bundles are scattered
Nagaland NbseNagaland Board of School Education 2017MCQ· 1mImportance★★★★★
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Grafting requires a vascular cambium to knit the graft union; monocot vascular bundles are closed (cambium-less), so grafting is not possible.

Grafting is a method of vegetative/asexual propagation in which a piece of one plant (the scion) is joined to the rooted stem of another (the stock), and the two grow together as a single plant because the cambium of each forms callus tissue that unites the vascular systems across the graft junction — a process that depends on the presence of a functional (secondary) vascular cambium capable of producing new xylem and phloem.

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