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Diversity of frankiae in soils from five continents.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Dec 2009
Mirza Babur S, Welsh Allana, Rieder Julie P, Paschke Mark W, Hahn Dittmar
Abstract excerpt
Clone libraries of nifH gene fragments specific for the nitrogen-fixing actinomycete Frankia were generated from six soils obtained from five continents using a nested PCR. Comparative sequence analyses of all libraries (n=247 clones) using 96 to 97% similarity thresholds revealed the presence of three and four clusters of frankiae representing the Elaeagnus and the Alnus host infection groups, respectively....
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