“…Recent studies have also demonstrated the role of Sphingomonas spp. in the degradation of organic chemical compounds, such as bisphenol (Fujiwara et al 2016 ), phenol (Gong et al 2016 ), triclocarban (Mulla et al 2016 ), phenanthrene (Liu et al 2016 ), chlorogenic acid (Ma et al 2016 ), nonylphenol polyethoxylates (Bai et al 2016 ), astaxanthin (Ma et al 2016 ), dioxin (Miller et al 2010 ), γ-hexachlorocyclohexane (Tabata et al 2013 ), nicotine (Zhu et al 2016 ), plasticizers (Kera et al 2016 ), and hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (Kumari et al 2002 ) among others. In addition to these degradation abilities, the Sphingomonas genus can also produce bioactive metabolites, such as indole acetic acid, gibberellins, sphingan (Li et al 2016 ), and gellan gum (Gai et al 2011b ).…”