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Frankia Symbioses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Frankia Symbioses (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, 12
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Five years have now passed since the first symposium on frankiae
was held at Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts, USA and the
inauguration of the term actinorhiza. Many advances have been made
during these five years in our understanding of the actinorhizal
symbioses. Evidence for this was provided by the papers presented
at the Wageningen Workshop on Frankia symbioses, held in Wageningen
at the Department of Microbiology of the Agricultural University.
Most of these papers are now published in this volume of PLANT AND
SOIL. We kindly acknowledge the assistance of Anton Houwers, editor
of the journal, in planning, reviewing and publishing these
studies. Although the papers presented at Wageningen described the
active research areas, they also illuminated those aspects of these
symbioses which remain beyond our understanding. Primary among the
areas of our ignorance is the concept of species within the
bacterial symbiont, Frankia. At present groupings of bacterial
strains are based on cell chemistry, physiology, serology, DNA
homology and symbiotic capa bilities (cross-inoculation). When
these classification schemes are merged no clear species framework
is obtained. Undoubtedly part of the difficulty is due to a lack of
strains for analysis. Currently bacterial strains from only half of
the actinorhizal symbioses known to exist, have been isolated and
studied in pure culture. We must postpone there fore any
comprehensive taxonomic classification until a larger majority of
the symbioses are represented. Another research area wherein our
understanding is insufficient is host-symbiont interaction."
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