All of the following statements concerning the actinomycetous filamentous soil bacterium Frankia are correct except that Frankia [CBSE PMT 2005]

Cannot fix specialized vesicles in which the nitrogenase is protected from oxygen by a chemical barrier involving triterpene hapanoids

Can induce root nodules on many plant species

Cannot fix nitrogen in the free-living state

Like Rhizobium, it usually infects its host plant through root hair deformation and stimulates cell proliferation in the host's cortex

All of the following statements concerning the actinomycetous filament

1.	All of the following statements concerning the actinomycetous filamentous soil bacterium Frankia are correct except that Frankia [CBSE PMT 2005]
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 hapanoids
D.	Like Rhizobium, it usually infects its host plant through root hair deformation and stimulates cell proliferation in the host's cortex
Answer» C. Cannot fix specialized vesicles in which the nitrogenase is protected from oxygen by a chemical barrier involving triterpene hapanoids