Frankia
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frankia-162-11927614
title:
Frankia
text:
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. This genus was originally named by Jørgen Brunchorst, in 1886 to honor the German biologist Albert Bernhard Frank. Brunchorst considered the organism he had identified to be a filamentous fungus. Becking redefined the genus in 1970 as containing prokaryotic
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Genus of bacteria
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankia
date created:
2005-01-31T10:21:59Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T03:52:10Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/An_alder_root_nodule_gall.JPG","width":2288,"height":1712}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16