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What does saprophytic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Relating to saprophytes.
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It is in practice an obligate parasite, surviving in citrus or in a variety of other host plants, with no saprophytic phase.
Most are saprophytic similar to true fungi. v. Sexual life cycle is diplontic, fungi have haplontic cycle.
Perform an appropriate dilution plating technique aiming to ensure that any background saprophytic colonyforming populations are diluted out.
Thus, the evolution of a completely saprophytic life cycle in different groups of orchids is not surprising.
Gloves are designed to protect the patient from the surgeon's skin, where germs may not be saprophytic for all concerned!
Inhibition of the fungus can be obtained by spraying with saprophytic fungi.

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