SAPROPHYTE

săpˈrəfītˌ, any plant that depends on dead plant or animal tissue for a source of nutrition and metabolic energy, e.g., most fungi (molds) and a few flowering plants, such as Indian pipe and some orchids. Most saprophytes do not produce chlorophyll and therefore do not photosynthesize; they are thus dependent on the food energy they absorb from the decaying tissues, which they help to break down.

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books on: Saprophyte  - 35 results

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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...function as a gamete. facultative parasite Bot. . A saprophyte which may become a parasite under special conditions. facultative saprophyte Bot. . A parasite which can live as a saprophyte under special conditions. Also HEMIPARASITE, HEMISAPROPHYTE...
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The World of Plant Life
Book by Clarence J. Hylander; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Botany--United States
...consisting of five petals and sepals. This saprophyte occurs in woods from New York to North...southeastern states, is a purplish-brown saprophyte with clusters of violet-scented flowers...flowering habit, these blood-red saprophytes are often covered by a late spring snowfall...
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The Flora of the Cayuga Lake Basin, New York: Vascular Plants
Book by Karl M. Wiegand, Arthur J. Eames; Cornell University, 1926
Subjects: Botany--New York (State)--Cayuga Lake
...parasitic apparently on the roots of pines," though generally it is considered to be a saprophyte, and its root system is that of a typical saprophyte. 3. Chimaphila Pursh a . Leaves oblanceolate, green throughout. 1. C. umbellata, var...
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Vistas in Botany
Book by W. B Turrill; Pergamon, 1959
Subjects: Botany
...the 20th century is Cryptothallus mirabilis , a colourless saprophyte often living in the surface litter beneath Molinia or large...from a number of British localties 107 . In being a total saprophyte Cryptothallus is unique among bryophytes, though some other...
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The Biological Action of Growth Substances
Book by Society For Experimental Biology; Academic Press, 1957
Subjects: Biochemistry, Growth Factors
...such situations are mostly saprophytes able to exploit organic...marked associations of saprophytes on shoot surfaces. b Parasitism...micro-organisms from soil saprophyte to root parasite and from soil saprophyte to mycorrhizal associate...
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journal articles on: Saprophyte  - 2 results

 
 
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Histoires De Ruines: Calomnies De Linda Le
Journal article by Marie-Magdeleine Chirol; French Forum, Vol. 29, 2004
...trois Parques meme le concept de renouveau a partir des ruines est negatif: "Les saprophytes en beton poussaient sur les ruines des vieux palais" (16). Saprophyte: "Se dit dun organisme qui vit aux depens de matieres organiques en provoquant...
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Characterization of Chromosome Ends in the Filamentous Fungus Neurospora Crassa
Journal article by Cheng Wu, Yun-Sik Kim, Kristina M. Smith, Weixi Li, Heather M. Hood, Chuck Staben, Eric U. Selker, Matthew S. Sachs, Mark L. Farman; Genetics, Vol. 181, 2009
Subjects: Biomedical research, Chromosomes, Gene amplification, Genetics, Genomics, Organisms, Studies, Technical support
...relative to N. crassa (Dean et al. 2005).Thismay be related to the different lifestyles of the two fungi. Neurospora is a saprophyte and, in nature, is found primarily on burned vegetation where it presumably derives carbon by degrading the walls of dead...


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magazine articles on: Saprophyte  - 2 results

 
 
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Jekyll-hyde Mushrooms
Magazine article by George Barron; Natural History, March 1992
Subjects: Fungi
...think of wood-decaying fungi as benign saprophytes concerned only with the dull routine...as a Hohenbuehelia, well known as a saprophyte decaying wood and debris. My graduate...mushrooms, previously thought to be passive saprophytes, that were in fact aggressive carnivores...
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The Trouble with Textbooks
Magazine article by Stephen Budiansky; ASEE Prism, Vol. 10, February 2001
...chapter, and many are terms that even a well-educated scientist in another field would probably not know, nor need to know. Saprophyte, Punnett Square, auxism, Islets of Langerhans, commensalism, and taiga are but a few of the terms seventh-grade biology...


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newspaper articles on: Saprophyte  - 2 results

 
 
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Nature Watch
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 30, 2006
...hyphae which absorb nutrients from the host. If the host is living the fungus is a parasite, if the host is dead it is a saprophyte. The purpose of the fruiting bodies is to produce spores through which fungi reproduce. Grassland fairy rings are formed...
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On Country Matters
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 11, 2006
...between West Kirby and Parkgate. SHARP-EYED Gary McLardy wrote after noticing a parasite (one of the mosses) living on a saprophyte (a species of bracket fungi), living on a tree stump (sycamore or poplar). A world, within a world, within a world...


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encyclopedia articles on: Saprophyte  - 2 results

 
 
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Saprophyte
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAPROPHYTE sap r fit , any plant that depends on dead plant or animal tissue for...a few flowering plants, such as Indian pipe and some orchids. Most saprophytes do not produce chlorophyll and therefore do not photosynthesize; they...
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Fungi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...multicellular organisms, including yeasts, molds, and mushrooms. The organisms live as parasites , symbionts, or saprobes (see saprophyte ). Previously classified in the plant kingdom, fungi are nonmotile, like plants, but lack the vascular tissues (phloem...


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