Talk:Saprotrophic nutrition

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Totally incomprehensible introduction. How about a bit less jargon for those of us who are not specialists in the field? 95.151.208.16 (talk) 16:35, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

Oh my god, they just appeared ;-) JCraw 13:05, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Process - Explanation

Out of my field, so I'll just leave this here as a point for experts to consider: also, cellulose and cellulases? Narky Blert (talk) 19:58, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

gobbledygook

I came here to understand more about the term "saprotrophic", but fail to understand the geeky language. Unfortunately, this is not the first entry which is inaccesible to me. Please keep Wikipedia comprehensible to laypeople like myself. I find myself turning more often to the old-fashioned Encyclopædia Britannica to get the information I need. hskoppek (talk) 07:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nitrogen and cofactors

I have removed a paragraph that is talking about nitrogen sources. As far as my mycology knowledge goes - and confirmed by a quick read of nitrogen cycle - saprotrophs by their very nature degrade plant matter and use nitrogen from plant proteins. I am sure there MUST be a review paper showing this mechanism, but I honestly have not looked. Maybe someone more dialled in on mycology can cite that.

The original text I deleted claims that the nitrogen comes from "amino acids [...] usually taken from rich soil". No doubt the saprotrophs would use whatever is available.

I removed the entire paragraph since it has a March 2024 clarify tag on part of a sentence, and I was only going to compound the problem with my original plan to tag some other parts with ^{[citation needed]} and ^{[clarification needed]}.

It would be helpful if someone from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fungi could please add something better cited and more coherent explaining the nitrogen cycle that saprotrophs use, as well as any ionic co-factors for growth eg: Fe/Mg/folate. I am certain this should be trivial as I remember roughly being taught this over a decade ago when I took an environmental microbiology unit. I will post the wikiproject to flag down someone who ie better equipped than me to contibute.

I reserve my right to have made a poor editorial decision, and I'm not opposed to a rollback/revert if the WikiProject editors feel strongly. AllPurposeScientist^blah 17:34, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]