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sometimes called saprobes.
Saprotrophic plants or
bacterial flora are
called saprophytes (sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'),
although it is now believed[citation...
- Look up
saprophyte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Saprophyte may
refer to: Saprotrophs; organisms,
particularly fungi,
which obtain nutrients directly...
- The
honey fungus,
Armillaria mellea, is a
parasite of trees, and a
saprophyte feeding on the
trees it has killed....
- made up of
tubelike pores rather than gills.
Laetiporus sulphureus is a
saprophyte and
occasionally a weak parasite,
causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood...
- only a few
small outdoor sites where log
cultivation is practiced. As a
saprophyte that
occurs on dead wood, H. erinaceus
requires adequate substrate factors...
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beneficial commensals,
which grow on the skin and
mucous membranes, and
saprophytes,
which grow
mainly in the soil and in
decaying matter. The
blood and...
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known as myco-heterotrophs, but were
formerly (incorrectly)
described as
saprophytes as it was
believed they
gained their nutrition by
breaking down organic...
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colonizes living plants as an endophyte,
digests material in soil as a
saprophyte and is also
known as a
parasite of
other fungi and of nematodes. It produces...
- wood is
called sapro-xylophagy and
those animals, sapro-xylophagous.
Saprophyte (-phyte
meaning "plant") is a
botanical term that is no
longer in po****r...
- 1950s, S. marcescens was
erroneously believed to be a
nonpathogenic "
saprophyte", and its
reddish coloration was used in
school experiments to
track infections...
