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Definition: developing, flowering
Antonyms: dying, shrinking, withering

A technique for converting a vine from one specific variety to another, such as from zinfandel to sauvignon blanc. This process is done by cutting off the fruit-bearing part of the vine and grafting the new variety to a T-shaped incision made in the top portion of the rootstock. This process speeds up the time in which the new variety is productive by 2 to 3 years. A newly planted vine might take 3 years or more to become fully productive, whereas a variety created by T-budding can be fully productive in the second year. This process is widely used in California and Australia, where it's called green grafting.

1. the production of a bud or buds.
2. a form of asexual reproduction, occurring in certain bacteria and fungi (e.g. yeasts) and some primitive animals in which an individual arises from a daughter cell formed by pinching off a part of the parent cell. The budlike outgrowths so formed may sometimes remain attached to the parent cell.

Gemmation; asexual reproduction in which a portion of the cell body is thrust out and then becomes separated, forming a new individual.

• b. virions — viruses that acquire their envelope by budding through modified regions of host cell membranes.

• Reproduction and Development - budding: direct growth of new individual from body of old one
• Practice, Tools, and Techniques - budding: putting forth of buds; asexual propagation technique

This article is about the form of asexual reproduction. For other uses, see Budding (disambiguation).

Budding is a form of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud on another one. The new organism remains attached as it grows, separating from the parent organism only when it is mature. Since the reproduction is asexual, the newly created organism is a clone and is genetically identical to the parent organism.

Contents 1 Animal reproduction 2 Cellular budding 3 Virology 4 Plant multiplication 5 See also

Animal reproduction

Hydra with two buds

In multicellular animals (metazoans) offspring may develop as outgrowths of the parent. Animals that reproduce by budding include corals, some sponges, some acoel flatworms (e.g. Convolutriloba) and echinoderm larvae.

Cellular budding

Saccharomyces cerevisiae reproducing by budding

Some cells split via budding, for example Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast species used in baking and brewing. This process results in a 'mother' and a smaller 'daughter' cell.

Virology

In virology, budding is a form of viral shedding by which enveloped viruses acquire their external envelope from the host cell membrane, which bulges outwards and encloses the virion.

Plant multiplication

See also: Shield budding

In agriculture and horticulture, budding refers to grafting the bud of one plant onto another.

See also

• Fragmentation (reproduction)
• Paratomy
• Fission (biology)

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - spirende

Nederlands (Dutch)
in spe, aankomend, knopvorming

Français (French)
adj. - bourgeonnant, en bouton (une fleur), (fig) en herbe, naissant (une passion)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - sprossend, angehend

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - μπουμπουκιασμένος, (μτφ.) εκκολαπτόμενος, ανερχόμενος

Italiano (Italian)
gemmazione, in erba

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - florescente

Русский (Russian)
распускающийся, расцветающий, многообещающий

Español (Spanish)
adj. - gemación, en ciernes

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - knoppande, spirande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
萌芽的, 少壮的, 发育期的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 萌芽的, 少壯的, 發育期的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 꽃봉오리가 지기 시작한, 신진의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 芽を出しかけた, 現われかかった, 新進の
n. - 発芽, 出芽

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) في بدايه النمو, ناشىء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮עולה, מנץ, מתחיל להתפתח‬

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