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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. Sphingomonas melonis can cause brown spots on melon fruits from the melon plant. 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.

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Sphingomonas melonis
Scientific classification Edit this 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. 20021
Type strain2
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.134 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

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  1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
  2. Straininfo of Sphingomonas melonis
  3. UniProt
  4. Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen [1]
  5. Buonaurio, R; Stravato, VM; Kosako, Y; Fujiwara, N; Naka, T; Kobayashi, K; Cappelli, C; Yabuuchi, E (November 2002). "Sphingomonas melonis sp. nov., a novel pathogen that causes brown spots on yellow Spanish melon fruits". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (Pt 6): 2081–7. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-6-2081. PMID 12508872.
  6. Matsumoto H, Fan X, Wang Y, Kusstatscher P, Duan J, Wu S, et al. (January 2021). "Bacterial seed endophyte shapes disease resistance in rice". Nature Plants. 7 (1): 60–72. doi:10.1038/s41477-020-00826-5. PMID 33398157. S2CID 256689622.
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