New insights into viral threats in soybean (Glycine max) crops from Bangladesh, including a novel crinivirus

Mst Fatema Khatun; Myeonghwan Kwak; Minhyeok Kwon; Md Motaher Hossain; Eui-Joon Kil

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2025.1523767

New insights into viral threats in soybean (Glycine max) crops from Bangladesh, including a novel crinivirus

Front Microbiol. 2025 Feb 18:16:1523767. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2025.1523767. eCollection 2025.

Authors

Mst Fatema Khatun^#^{1

2

3

4}, Myeonghwan Kwak^#^{1

2}, Minhyeok Kwon^{1

2}, Md Motaher Hossain⁴, Eui-Joon Kil^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Plant Medicals, Andong National University, Andong, Republic of Korea.
² Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute, Andong National University, Andong, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Entomology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh.
⁴ Department of Plant Pathology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Gazipur, Bangladesh.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Soybean (Glycine max) crops in Bangladesh face significant challenges due to viral diseases, exacerbated by the hot and humid conditions that favor virus and vector proliferation. The emergence of novel or resurgent viruses can jeopardize soybean production because of the difficulties in identifying and characterizing these pathogens. In addition, detecting and characterizing new plant viruses demands considerable resources and commitment. This study examines soybean plants, collected from research fields in Gazipur, Bangladesh, between February 2022 and January 2023, that exhibited green or yellow mosaic, leaf wrinkling, and mild yellowing symptoms. Utilizing high-throughput sequencing, we examined the virome in soybean leaves. Our findings revealed the presence of three RNA viruses-Potyvirus phaseovulgaris (bean common mosaic virus, BCMV), P. phaseoli (bean common mosaic necrosis virus, BCMNV), a novel crinivirus-and one DNA virus, Begomovirus vignaradiataindiaense (mungbean yellow mosaic India virus, MYMIV). This is the first identification of the novel crinivirus, soybean mild yellows Bangladesh virus (SMYBV), in soybean. We assembled four viral genome sequences for phylogenetic analysis. The novel crinivirus is closely related to the criniviruses CCYV, LCV, and PloACV. BCMV and BCMNV exhibited high sequence similarity with a Bangladeshi isolate in the common bean, which indicated the continued spread of BCMV and BCMNV present in Bangladesh. Mixed infections with MYMIV-SMYBV, MYMIV-BCMV-BCMNV, and MYMIV-BCMNV were detected in soybean samples through RT-PCR and PCR.

Keywords: crinivirus; high-throughput sequencing (HTS); mixed infections; novel virus; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was supported by a grant from the Agenda Program (PJ01530803) funded by the Rural Development Administration of Korea.