bud variation

American  

noun

1. any variation in a bud due to changes in either its genetic composition or environment or both such that the resulting flower, fruit, or shoot differs from others of the same plant or species.

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Example Sentences

I have some very fine specimens that came by accident, and of course we have a certain amount of bud variation.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 by Northern Nut Growers Association

If there is a bud variation, we should certainly have some of the good ones and are anxiously waiting the time when these grafts begin to bear.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

If there is bud variation we hope that we will have at least some grafts of the superior Fox nuts.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Some have advanced the idea of bud variation in the parent tree.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Bud variation: occasionally one bud on a plant will produce a branch differing in some ways from the rest of the branches; this is bud variation.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William