Mustard belonging to the family Brassicaceae is not only an essential source of edible oil in India but also a condiment and vegetable leaf source. After soybean, mustard is India's second most significant oilseed crop. There are three major varieties of mustard: yellow mustard (Brassica rapa subsp. trilocularis), thought to have Mediterranean origin; brown mustard, sometimes known as Indian mustard (Brassica juncea); and black mustard (B. nigra), thought to have Asia Minor-Iran origin. Several viruses have been found to infect mustard in India, including turnip yellows virus (TuYV) (Sharma et al., 2013), turnip mosaic virus (TuMV)
Coriander is a herbaceous spice and condiment crop also known for its medicinal properties. The present study identified two putative novel deltapartitiviruses and an enamovirus tentatively named as Coriandrum sativum deltapartitivirus 1, 2 (CsDPV1, 2) and Coriandrum sativum enamovirus (CsEV) in the publicly available transcriptome-assembled contigs derived from coriander grown in India. CsDPV1 and 2 contained tripartite and bipartite genomes, respectively with each genome segment encoding for a single ORF. CsEV contained five ORFs encoding for proteins P0, P1, P1–2, P3 and P3–5. Phylogenetic analysis revealed three distinct subgroups of deltapartitiviruses wherein CsDPV1 and 2 grouped in subgroup 3 and 1, respectively while CsEV formed a distinct sub-clade within enamoviruses. Further, presence of CsDPV2 in fruit samples of one of the cultivars from where the virus was identified was validated through RT-PCR assay and Sanger sequencing. The study highlights the need for further studies on understanding the importance and biological properties of identified novel viruses.
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