| 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 | |
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]