José de Jesus Caballero Mellado, Mexican soil microbiologist (Tampico, Tamaulipas State 18 March 1953 – Cuernavaca, Morelos State 16 October 2010)

Achievements

First to report nitrogen-fixing capacity of Acetobacter peroxydans (2005)

With Z.R. Suarez Moreno & V. Venturi. The new group of non-pathogenic plant-associated nitrogen-fixing Burkholderia ssp. shares a conserved quorum-sensing system, which is tightly regulated by the RsaL repressor. Microbiology 154:2048-59, 2008

With V.J. Marín Cevada, R. Bustillos Cristales, J. Muñoz Rojas, M.A. Mascarua Esparza et al. Tatumella ptyseos, an unrevealed causative agent of pink disease in pineapple. J. Phytopathol. 158:93-9, 2010

DESCRIBED NEW BACTERIA SPECIES

Gluconacetobacter johannae & Gluconacetobacter azotocaptans 2001 with Fuentes Ramírez, Bustillos-Cristales, Tapia-Hernandez et al

Paraburkholderia caballeronis 2013 with Martínez Aguilar, Salazar-Salazar, Díaz mendez et al.

Paraburkholderia silvatlantica 2006 with Perin, Martínez Aguilar, Paredes Valdez, Baldin, Estrada de los Santos & Reis

Paraburkholderia tropicae 2004 with Reis, Estrada de los Santos, Tenorio Salgado, Vogelt et al.

Paraburkholderia unamae 2004 with Martínez Aguilar, Paredes Valdez & Estrada de los Santos

Paraburkholderia xenovorans 2004 with Goris, de Vos, Park, Falsen et al.

Pseudomonas cuatrocienegasensis 2009 with Escalante, Martínez Aguilar, Rodríguez Verdugo et al.

Honors

Caballeronia Dobritsa & Samadpour 2016 (Bacteria)