Question

All of the following statements concerning the actinomycetous filamentous soil bacterium Frankia are correct except that Frankia: [AIPMT(Prelims)-2005] (1)Can induce root nodules on many plant species (2)Can fix nitrogen in the free-living state (3)Like Rhizobium,it usually infects its host plant through root hair deformation and stimulates cell proliferation in the host's cortex (4)Forms specialized vesicles in which the nitrogenase is protected from oxygen by a chemical barrier involving triterpene hopanoids

Answer 1

Answer:

(2) can fix nitrogen in free living state

Explanation:

they fix nitrogen in symbiotic relationship with alnus.