Saprobionts are organisms that digest their food externally and then absorb the products. This process is called saprotrophic nutrition. Fungi are examples...

nucleus. Ultrastructural characters are not known. Kamera lens lives as a saprobiont and can be found in hay infusions. William Saville Kent reported spore-masses...

Extracellular phototropic digestion is a process in which saprobionts feed by secreting enzymes through the cell membrane onto the food. The enzymes catalyze...

host has died, the fungus can continue to feed on the substrate as a saprobiont for some time. It causes intense white rot in the heartwood. The species...