POSSIBILITY OF HIGHER GREEN PLANTS HETEROTROPHIC NUTRITION

Abstract

The latest study proposed a new look into the nutrition of higher green plants as a base for a brief analytical review of the scientific literature. The paradigm originated based on the utilization and absorption of organic compounds, which comprise the soil organic matter of green vascular plants. From the trophological point of view, green vascular plants are facultative heterotrophic (mixotrophic) organisms. Heterotrophic plant feeding is an additional feeding that makes plants more resistant to adverse environmental conditions. The plants’ consumption and assimilation of organic compounds have a direct impact on the biochemical and biophysical processes occurring in these vascular plants. As a result of organic compound utilization, plant growth and development accelerate. The natural consequence of these provisions: in the process of the biological carbon cycle in ecosystems, the circulation of organic compounds (universal structural and functional units), which can be used repeatedly at various trophic levels of ecological systems (to build primarily plant biomass), plays an essential role. The heterotrophic feeding pathway of green vascular plants is one of the auxiliary ways to regulate plant productivity.