Saprotrophism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Saprotrophism is a noun meaning The condition of being saprotrophic.
Meaning
The condition of being saprotrophic.
Example Sentences
Savile (43) suggests that obligate parasitism is a fundamental attribute of primitive groups and that more than once saprotrophism may have derived from it.
Of all the potential levels of interaction between fungi and other organisms, parasitism is perhaps the most difficult to demonstrate and distinguish from saprotrophism in the fossil record.
Saprotrophism facilitates the persistence of the fungal population in a stand and limits the effects of genetic drift and founder effects by massively sustaining the production of propagules that will try to infect the healthy trees available (see Model section).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include saprophytism, saprobism, prototrophy, saprobicity, biotrophism, phagotrophy.
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