All of the following statements concerning actinomycetous filamentous soil bacterium Frankia are correct except that Frankia:\tCan induce root nodules in many plant species\tCannot fix nitrogen in free living state\tCannot fix specialized vesicles in which the nitrogenase is protected from oxygen by a chemical barrier involving triterpene hapanoids.\tLike Rhizobium, it usually infects its host plant through root hair deformation and stimulates cell proliferation in the host’s cortex.Do explain your answer.

Jincy Bassilia , 5 Years ago

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