saprotrophic

Examples of saprotrophic in the following topics:

• Plant Pathogens

  • Many soil inhabiting fungi are capable of living saprotrophically , carrying out the part of their lifecycle in the soil .
  • These are known as facultative saprotrophs.

• Starvation-Induced Fruiting Bodies

  • Myxococcus xanthus colonies exist as a self-organized, predatory, saprotrophic, single-species biofilm called a swarm .

• Wetland Soils

  • Saprotrophs, well represented by fungi and bacteria, extract soluble nutrients from delitro.