Frankia
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This article is about the filamentous bacteria. For the Frankish empire, see Francia. For the plant, see Gymnarrhena.
Frankia is a genus of nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live in symbiosis with actinorhizal plants, similar to the Rhizobium bacteria found in the root nodules of legumes in the family Fabaceae. Frankia also initiate the forming of root nodules.
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Frankia | |
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An alder root nodule. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Frankiales |
Family: | Frankiaceae Becking 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)[1] |
Genus: | Frankia Brunchorst 1886[2] |
Type species | |
Frankia alni (Woronin 1866) Von Tubeuf 1895 non Steud. 1840 | |
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This genus was originally named by Jørgen Brunchorst, in 1886 to honor the German biologist Albert Bernhard Frank.[4] Brunchorst considered the organism he had identified to be a filamentous fungus. Becking [de; nl] redefined the genus in 1970 as containing prokaryotic actinomycetes and created the family Frankiaceae within the Actinomycetales. He retained the original name of Frankia for the genus.[5]