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saprotrophic (adjective) - describes an organism, typically a fungus or bacterium, that feeds on decaying organic matter. Saprotrophic organisms play a crucial role in decomposition and recycling of nutrients in ecosystems
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- of or pertaining to saprotrophs (or saprobes)
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They include saprotrophic or pathogenic species.
They are unicellular and saprotrophic fungi.
Insulare is a saprotrophic decay fungus that is rarely pathogenic.
It will also allow us to collect data on saprotrophic species.
The species is saprotrophic and its appearance is quite variable.
They can be parasitic or saprotrophic.
Saprotrophic fungi populations were less affected by soil nutrient levels.
The second principle is to promote saprotrophic fungi in the environment.
This saprotrophic fungus is found commonly in marine and soil environments.
Most efficient wood degraders are saprotrophic ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.
The saprotrophic species were only to a minor extent affected by the treatments.
Ecology is saprotrophic.
Saprotrophic bacteria are those that specialize in breaking down dead organic material.
Oligospora is considered a saprobe and is more saprotrophic than other nematode capturing fungi.
It is a saprotrophic species, growing on decaying leaf litter.
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Penicillium roqueforti is a common saprotrophic fungus in the genus Penicillium.
Prokaryotes, fungi and few arthropods were saprotrophic.
Ectomycorrhizal fungi and saprotrophic microorganisms coexist and interact in the mycorrhizosphere.
Splendidissima is only known from Europe and is saprotrophic on wood.
Hymenoscyphus albidus is a saprotrophic fungus which grows on the dead leaves of ash trees.
In general, however, mycorrhizal fungus species demonstrated lower viability than saprotrophic fungi.
Exophiala jeanselmei is a saprotrophic fungus in the family Herpotrichiellaceae.
Isotopic profiles of C. cinnabarinum resembled those of ectomycorrhizal fungi but not those of saprotrophic fungi.
Melanoleuca is a poorly known genus of saprotrophic mushrooms traditionally classified in the Tricholomataceae family.
This study addressed competition of Scleroconidioma sphagnicola Tsuneda, Currah & Thormann with saprotrophic ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.
Parasola plicatilis is a small saprotrophic mushroom with a plicate cap diameter up to 35 mm.
Panaeolus is a genus of small, black-spored, saprotrophic agarics.
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Species are thus diverse and are variously ectomycorrhizal, lichenized, associated with mosses, or saprotrophic.
Species of the genus have a saprotrophic mode of nutrition, and occur around the world.
Saprotrophic fungi on a birch tree at Rautalahdenniemi (jpg, 5 mb).
Unlike bacteria, which are unicellular organisms, most saprotrophic fungi grow as a branching network of hyphae.
They are saprotrophic and most grow on the ground, but some are found on wood.
Pseudomonas putida is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, saprotrophic soil bacterium.
In temperate forests, saprotrophic basidiomycetes such as white-rot fungi are the main wood decomposers.
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Key words, basidiomycetes, saprotrophic fungi, mycorrhizal fungi, fungi-vegetation relationships, Mantel test, ordination.
Of these Pseudomonas putida, a saprotrophic soil bacterium was deemed highly appropriate.
Key words, irrigation, mycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen, saprotrophic fungi, basidioma production, nitrogen-free fertilization ( vitalization ).