Sphingobacterium zeae

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

{{Taxobox

| name = Sphingobacterium zeae

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacteroidota

| classis = Sphingobacteriia

| ordo = Sphingobacteriales

| familia = Sphingobacteriaceae

| genus = Sphingobacterium

| species = S. zeae

| binomial = Sphingobacterium zeae

| binomial_authority = Kämpfer et al. 2016{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Sphingobacterium|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/sphingobacterium}}

| type_strain = CCM 8652, LMG 29191, JM-1081{{cite journal|title=Sphingobacterium zeae|website=www.uniprot.org|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/1776859|language=en}}

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Sphingobacterium zeae is a Gram-negative and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of Sphingobacterium which has been isolated from stem tissue of a mays-plant (Zea mays).{{cite journal|last1=Glaeser|first1=Stefanie P.|last2=Kämpfer|first2=Peter|last3=Kleinhagauer|first3=Tanita|last4=McInroy|first4=John A.|last5=Busse|first5=Hans-Jürgen|title=Sphingobacterium zeae sp. nov., an endophyte of maize|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=1 July 2016|volume=66|issue=7|pages=2643–2649|doi=10.1099/ijsem.0.001100|pmid=27098598|doi-access=free}}