About Mustard

Basic knowledge of Mustard

Mustard Field

👉  Plants Length 16 cm (6.3 in). Plants  height 1.2-2 m (4–6.6 ft) 

👉  The yellow flowers grow in spike like clusters of 2–12 flowers and individual flowers are 8 mm (0.3 in) in diameter. 

👉The seeds are red to brown in color and produced from each flower. Mustard   an annual plant, survives only one growing season. 

Uses:

Important pests of Mustard:

1.  Diamondback moth: Plutella xylostella
2.  Larger moth (Leaf webber): Crocidolomia binotalis
3.  Mustard saw fly: Athalia lugens proxima
4. Cabbage head borer: Hellula undalis
5. Leaf miner: Chromatomyia horticola
6.  Mustard aphid: Lipaphis erysimi

Important pests of Mustard:

1. Sclerotinia Stem Rot
2. Alternaria Black Spot
3. White Rust
4. Downy Mildew

Technologies Developed:

Crop Improvement:

👉The first CMS based hybrid (NRCHB 506) and 04 varieties (NRCDR 02, NRCHB 101, NRCDR 601, and DRMRIJ 31) of Indian mustard and one variety of yellow sarson (NRCYS 05-02) were developed at DRMR.

👉Fifty novel genetic stocks of rapeseed-mustard (CMS, restorer, low erucic acid, low erucic acid & low glucosinolates. high oil content, high oleic acid and low linolenic acid, dwarf, earliness, long main shoot, bold seed, yellow seed, tetralocular siliquae, white rust resistance, tolerance to high temperature and salinity during juvenile stage, high temperature tolerance during terminal stage and high water use efficiency) including eleven from DRMR were registered with NBPGR, New Delhi till 2013.

👉A total of 142 varieties (Indian mustard-91; toria-16; yellow sarson-11; gobhi sarson-11; brown sarson-3; karan rai-4; taramira-5 and black mustard-1) of rapeseed mustard have been released after inception of AICRP-RM in 1967 till 2013. These include six hybrids.

👉Rapeseed-mustard varieties having tolerance to biotic (white rust, Alternaria blight, powdery mildew) & abiotic stresses (salinity, high temperature) and quality traits have been recommended for specific growing conditions.

👉Interspecific hybrid derived from cross NRCYS5-02 (B. rapa ssp. yellow sarson ) x B. frticulosa ( wild species ) and Brassica tournefortii x B. rapa var. yellow sarson (NRCYS-05-02), through sexual hybridization was confirmed using morphological, cytological and STMS markers.

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