DNA was extracted from dry standing dead Spartina alterniflora stalks as well as dry Spartina wrack from the North Inlet (South Carolina) and Sapelo Island (Georgia) salt marshes. Partial nifH sequenc
Actinorhizal plants can form nitrogen-fixing root nodules in symbiosis with members of the soil-dwelling actinobacterial genus Frankia, with members of specific Frankia taxonomic clusters nodulating p