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

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

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

This new addition, unlike the old, which was another "bud variation," was secured by a cross between the old B. leiantha, scarlet with a single flower, and Alfred Neuner, double white.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

The shoot that is produced by bud variation is called a sport.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William

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