Budding vs. Sporulation — What's the Difference?

Budding is a type of asexual reproduction in which a new organism develops from an outgrowth or bud due to cell division at one particular site. The small bulb-like projection coming out from the yeast cell is known as a bud.

To produce or release spores.

Being in an early developmental stage

The process of a bacterium becoming a spore.

Beginning to develop.

The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, (b).

(horticulture) The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.

Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores

(horticulture) The result of this practice.

Present participle of bud

The act or process of producing buds.

A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

The act or process of ingrafting one kind of plant upon another stock by inserting a bud under the bark.

Reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent

Beginning to develop;