Saprophagy

Japanese: saprophagy
Saprophagy

…Plants that cannot synthesize enough nutrients to live independently and obtain nutrients by attaching themselves to other objects are called heterotrophs. When the object they attach to is dead organic matter, they are called necrositisers or saprophagic plants, and such plants are called saprophytes. However, there are no true saprophytes among higher plants; they are mycorrhizal plants that obtain nutrients from saprophytic mycorrhizae, or more precisely, plants that parasitise saprophytic fungi. …

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Japanese:

…植物のうち,独立で生活できるだけの栄養物を合成することができず,他物に寄り付いて栄養を得るものを他養というが,寄り付くものが死んだ有機物である場合を死物寄生または腐生saprophagyといい,そのような植物を腐生植物という。ただし,高等植物には真の腐生植物はなく,腐生的な菌根から養分をとる菌根植物で,正確には腐生菌類に寄生する植物である。…

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