saprophytes

Other saprophytes break down dead plants and animals into simple chemicals.

Any change in these conditions either slows down the action of saprophytes or kills them.

You can't get away from soil saprophytes no matter how clean you are.

A reduction of soil born saprophytes can be reached by removing dry straw from the field.

It ranges from close to sea level up to about 400 m. The plants lack chlorophyll and live as saprophytes.

Some fungi are parasites on living organisms, but most are saprophytes.

"Those fish with patches of scales torn off will anyway become prey to disease, to worms and saprophytes."

These organisms, called saprophytes, grow and multiply on nonliving organic matter that they use as food.

They are saprophytes and have small fruiting bodies.

Clostrida are extensively found in nature predominately as benign soil saprophytes.

You know, from the fertilizer that bacteria, yeast, fungi, and saprophytes generally need."

The saprophytes are fed on beautifully combined organics.

These saprophytes have no leaves and are totally reliant on a soil-borne fungus for survival.

Such plants were therefore called "saprophytes".

Many bacteria and protozoa are also saprophytes.

However, very wet conditions inhibit ascospore development due to leaf decomposition and competition from saprophytes.

This means that saprophytes are heterotrophs.

"The natural vegetation is fungoid, both saprophytes and parasites of various types and sizes.

Fungi comprise a eukaryotic kingdom of microbes that are usually saprophytes but can cause diseases in humans.

They are typically aerobic saprophytes producing begetative areial mycelium.

Plants that were once considered saprophytes, such as non-photosynthetic orchids and monotropes, are now known to be parasites on fungi.

They are terrestrial, leafless myco-heterotrophs (formerly called saprophytes).

'Saprophytes are beneficial parasites.

Its dreary bluish twilight supported almost no low-growing green plants, only saprophytes nourished by the detritus of the great trees.

Saprophytes are a plant, fungus, or micro-organism, more accurately called myco-heterotrophs because they actually parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly.