Researchers Help Find Natural Products Potential of Frankia

Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 12:50 in Biology & Nature

Soil-dwelling bacteria of the genus Frankia have the potential to produce a multitude of natural products, including antibiotics, herbicides, pigments, anticancer agents, and other useful products, according to an article in the June 2011 issue of the journal "Applied and Environmental Microbiology."

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