All of the following statements concerning the actinomycetous filamentous soil bacterium $Frankia$ are correct except that $Frankia$:

  • A
    Can induce root nodules on many plant species
  • B
    Cannot fix nitrogen in the free-living state
  • C
    Cannot fix specialized vesicles in which the nitrogenase is protected from oxygen by a chemical barrier involving triterpene hopanoids
  • D
    Like $Rhizobium$,it usually infects its host plant through root hair deformation and stimulates cell proliferation in the host's cortex

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