Saprotrophic nutrition
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Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi (for example Mucor) and soil bacteria. Saprotrophic microscopic fungi are sometimes called saprobes; saprotrophic plants or bacterial flora are called saprophytes (sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'), although it is now believed that all plants previously thought to be saprotrophic are in fact parasites of microscopic fungi or other plants. The process is most often facilitated through the active transport of such materials through endocytosis within the internal mycelium and its constituent hyphae.
See also
- Chemoautotrophic nutrition
- Decomposers
- Detritivore
- Holozoic nutrition
- Mycorrhizal fungi and soil carbon storage
- Parasitic nutrition
- Photoautotrophic nutrition
- Saprotrophic bacteria
- Wood-decay fungus
