"saprotrophism" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Savile (43) suggests that obligate parasitism is a fundamental attribute of primitive groups and that more than once saprotrophism may have derived from it.",
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          "text": "Saprotrophism facilitates the persistence of the fungal population in a stand and limits the effects of genetic drift and founder effects by massively sustaining the production of propagules that will try to infect the healthy trees available (see Model section).",
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