Sphingomonas melonis

Sphingomonas melonis is a bacterium from the genus Sphingomonas which has been isolated from the plant Cucumis melo var. inodorus in Madrid in Spain.^[1][3][4] Sphingomonas melonis can cause brown spots on melon fruits from the melon plant (Cucumis melo var. inodorus).^[5] In rice plants it can have disease-preventing effects, the seed-endophytic strain Sphingomonas melonis ZJ26 that can be naturally enriched in certain rice cultivars, confers diseases resistance against a bacterial pathogen and is vertically transmitted among plant generations via their seeds. ^[6]

Sphingomonas melonis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Sphingomonadales
Family:	Sphingomonadaceae
Genus:	Sphingomonas
Species:	S. melonis
Binomial name
Sphingomonas melonis Buonaurio et al. 2002[1]
Type strain[2]
BCRC 17459, CCRC 17459, CIP 107880, DAPP-PG 224, DSM 14444, DSMZ 14444 T , EY 4350, LMG 19484, NCPPB 4320, PG-224