Frankia

Frankia
An alder root nodule.
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Frankiales
Family: Frankiaceae
Becking 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
Genus: Frankia
Brunchorst 1886
Type species
Frankia alni
(Woronin 1866) Von Tubeuf 1895 non Steud. 1840
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Frankiella Maire and Tison 1909 non von Speschnew 1900 non Racheboeuf 1983
  • Parafrankia Gtari 2023
  • Protofrankia Gtari 2023
  • Pseudofrankia Gtari 2023
This article is about the filamentous bacteria. For the Frankish empire, see Francia. For the plant, see Gymnarrhena.

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 actinomycetes and created the family Frankiaceae within the Actinomycetales. He retained the original name of Frankia for the genus.

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