A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
1. A spontaneous mutation that generates a new rose. Climbing roses are sports of bush roses (see Climbing Rose). Other common sports include changes in color and petal count. Some sports are stable and can lead to the introduction of a new rose. Others are fleeting and will quickly revert back to the parent. 2. (Good Sport) How you describe your husband after he has dug a new flock of holes for the annual expansion of your rose garden.
a spontaneous genetic mutation, often resulting in a plant that bears flowers of a different color or with more or fewer petals than the original plant
A variety or strain arising from a bud mutation on a previously named variety.
Occasionally a rose will produce a cane that behaves differently. Sometimes the flowers on that cane will be a slightly different color , sometimes the cane may grow to a dramatically different length as in the case of a climber, sometimes a plant that is not remontant will grow a cane that is remontant. In each of these cases the cane with the new characteristics can be cut, caused to sprout roots, and become a new plant. Ophelia is an example of the first - having at least four direct sports of various colors. Madame Testout and Iceberg are examples of the second - having climbing sports of lower growing plants. New Dawn is an example of the third - an everblooming sport of Dr. Van Fleet.
A plant which shows a marked and inheritable change from its parent; a mutation.
Sport climbing is different from traditional in that the climber depends on fixed bolts rather than removable protection. Sport climbing routes often follow seemingly impossible paths, sometimes straight up huge, smooth rock walls, sometimes far out on horizontal overhangs. The emphasis in sport climbing is usually more on technique than topping out. Falls are frequent, though seldom serious, as climbers constantly push the limits of gravity and ability.
the spontaneous arrival of mutant plants or plant parts.
A mutated form of the original plant ( often different foliage color than the "mother" plant )
(mutation) Natural or induced genetic change, often exhibited as a variegated shoot or flower from the parent plant. Sports can be vegetatively propagated to give rise to new cultivars.
A sport is a mutation (genetic change), naturally occurring or induced to arise from a bud. It differs from the parent plant and can be vegetatively propagated to give rise to a new cultivar.
a genetic mutation that seems to bear no relationship to its parents, often the result of random mutation or recessive genes
a mutation produced vegetatively by a single plant that is different from the parent plant (no seeds involved)
a mutation that happened in a bud that results in the new branch having different characteristics than the rest of the plant
a new type of growth on a known plant such as a flower of a different color than is usual for that plant or a different growth pattern in the plant's branches or stems
a shoot of a plant that is different from the original
a spontaneous mutation in a branch resulting in a phenotypic difference
a spontaneous mutation in the tulip fields as opposed to a hybrid developed by man
a tree that deviates strikingly from the type of its species, thus F
A shoot differing in character from the typical growth of the parent plant, often giving rise to a new cultivar, which must be propagated vegetatively.
A natural deviation of part of a plant from the normal
an individual arising from the result of mutation, chimeral rearrangement, or mitotic recombination that is genontypically or phenontypically different from the original individual.
A hamster that is genetically different from the norm
an individual arising from the result of mutation or chimeral rearrangement that is genotypically or phenotypically different from the original individual.
A naturally occurring, spontaneous genetic change in a plant
A naturally occurring mutation which usually appears spontaneously with characteristics which differ from the rest of the plant, such as different flower color, variegated leaves, etc.
Short for sport climbing.
In botany, a sport is a part of a plant (normally a woody plant, but sometimes in herbs as well) that shows morphological differences from the rest of the plant. Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, or branch structure.