Bud

Bud (Science: botany) a small swelling or projection on a plant, from which a shoot, cluster of leaves, or flowers develops, a rudimentary, undeveloped shoot, leaf, or flower. A partially opened flower.

1. A daughter cell formed by mitosis in yeast; one daughter cell retains the cell wall of the parent, and the other (the bud) forms a new cell wall. 2. Rudimentary shoot of flower; a gemma. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...

Bud Rudimentary shoot of flower; a gemma. [New Search Form] Programming: Herbert Maier Database: Birgid Schlindwein. Please contact me if you encounter any mistakes or if you are missing anything © Dr. Birgid B. Schlindwein ...

bud or young Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...

Bud dormancy ABA mediates the conversion of the apical meristem into a dormant bud. Full article ...

bud. Bud that forms in the axil of a leaf. bulb. An underground storage organ, composed chiefly of enlarged, fleshy leaf bases. C ...

bud (1) In plants, an embryonic shoot, including rudimentary leaves, often protected by special bud scales. (2) In animals, an asexually produced outgrowth that develops into a new individual. budding ...

bud sports Buds that produce fruit that is different from the rest of the fruit on the tree; vegetatively propagated by grafting cuttings onto another plant.

Bud Mishra 151. Commercialization of the GRAIL EXPTM Gene Discovery System Doug Hyatt, Morey Parang, and Ed Uberbacher ...

bud An immature shoot, which the stems, leaves, or flowers may develop from.

bud scale scar A scar or impression encircling the twig caused by the abscission of bud scales. buffer Any substance or chemical compound that tends to keep pH levels constant when acids or bases are added.

bud A region of meristematic tissue with the potential for developing into leaves, shoots, flowers or combinations; generally protected by modified scale leaves.

This bud dormancy is localized. Prior chilling of one bud on a lilac stem enables it to flower while the other, nonchilled, buds on the stem remain dormant. Photoperiod ...

[L. germinis - bud, offshoot]. In megalecithal eggs, the small area on the fertilized egg to which cleavage is restricted. The blastodisc results from meroblastic cleavage and develops into the embryo.

Bud - an embryonic shoot with immature stem tip. Bulb - a short vertical underground stem with fleshy storage leaves attached, e.g. onion, daffodil, tulip.

Machel realized he had to nip this in the bud. So he went out, and I was fortunate to be one of the journalists permitted to go with him, to a village in which there had been an extraordinary number of wife killings in a very short period of time.

At a prototypical synapse, such as a dendritic spine, a mushroom-shaped bud projects from each of two cells and the caps of these buds press flat against one another.

blastoderm [Gr. blastos - germ, bud, shoot; Gr. derma - skin]. The divided germinal disc of a megalecithal egg lying on the yolk and composed of three regions: the area pellucida, the area opaca, and the syncytial periblast. Synonym: blastodisc.

The cell's "disposals" are the single membrane bound lysosomes that bud off from the golgi. They contain digestive enzymes. The cytoskeleton proteins are actin (microfilaments), microtubules, and intermediate filaments.

Blastocyst the hollow ball stage of embryonic development (blasto = bud‚ sprout) Botanist a person who studies plants (botan = grass‚ pasture) ...

In horticulture artificial propagation by insertion of a bud within the bark of another plant.

Rosette: a growthform in which the leaves are arranged in concentric circles or whorls around a central bud. Saprophyte: a plant lacking chlorophyll that obtains its nutrients from dead organic matter.

See also: Cells, Trans, Cell, Organ, Protein