(1) It is a true autotroph and uses only two sources for its metabolism: carbon dioxide as its source for carbon and hydrogen as an energy source.(2) This period is followed by post-germinative growth that leads to seedling establishment and the acquisition of autotrophy .(3) Moreover, growth rate was deeply reduced during heterotrophic and autotrophic development.(4) They consider that early achievement of autotrophy is a major feature of structures with a high degree of foliarization.(5) Recently there has been discussion about the metabolic state of the ocean, with arguments questioning whether the open ocean is net autotrophic or net heterotrophic.(6) Plants are sessile, autotrophic , and grow in an indeterminate and modular manner.(7) Since plants and other photosynthetic organisms can produce many of their own nutrition requirements they are known as autotrophs .(8) After greening and probable transition from heterotrophy to autotrophy , root growth rate was enhanced and growth followed a linear pattern.(9) Because they interact with light to absorb only certain wavelengths, pigments are useful to plants and other autotrophs - organisms which make their own food using photosynthesis.(10) Physiologically, plant conversion or seedling development involves a transition from the heterotrophic embryo to an autotrophic plant.(11) The kelps are an important group of marine autotrophs that has left little or nothing in the way of a direct fossil record.(12) These developmental differences between autotrophs and parasites suggest that the functions of photoreceptors differ among autotrophs , hemiparasites, and holoparasites.(13) Plants are autotrophs , self-nourishing life forms.(14) These differences correlate with differentiated function as heterotrophic, autotrophic and transport pathway components of the leaf.
