- Look up
saprotroph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Saprotrophic nutrition /sæprəˈtrɒfɪk, -proʊ-/ or
lysotrophic nutrition is a
process of chemoheterotrophic...
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particularly American beech and maple.
Usually H. erinaceus is
considered saprophytic, as it
mostly feeds on dead trees. It can also be
found on
living trees...
- July 2022. Leake, J.R. (1994). "The
biology of myco-heterotrophic ('
saprophytic') plants". New Phytologist. 127 (2): 171–216. Bibcode:1994NewPh.127....
- bee, so as to
enforce proper cross-pollination. A rare
achlorophyllous saprophytic orchid growing entirely underground in Australia, Rhizant****a slateri...
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Necrotrophic pathogens on the
other hand, kill host
cells and feed
saprophytically, an
example being the root-colonising
honey fungi in the
genus Armillaria...
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spirochaete bacteria,
including a
small number of
pathogenic and
saprophytic species.
Leptospira was
first observed in 1907 in
kidney tissue slices...
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Peziza is a
large genus of
saprophytic cup
fungi that grow on the ground,
rotting wood, or dung. Most
members of this
genus are of
unknown edibility and...
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Cretaceous rocks in New Jersey,
becoming the
oldest known sighting of
saprophytic/mycotrophic
habits in
angiosperm plants and
among the
oldest known fossils...
- seen
growing on
dying hardwood trees, it only
appears to be
acting saprophytically,
rather than parasitically. As the tree dies of
other causes, P. ostreatus...
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Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, also
known as the
cinnabar polypore, is a
saprophytic, white-rot decomposer. Its
fruit body is a
bright orange shelf fungus....
