What Is Mustard (Brassica)?

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Mustard (Brassica) is a rotational cover or winter annual crop i.e., mostly used in vegetable and as well as production of raw crop. Mustard crop mostly have the potential to prevent suppress weeds, erosion, alleviate soil compaction, soil-borne pests and scavenge nutrients (Clark, 2007). Mustard crop has fastest fall growth, high production of biomass, and nutrient scavenging capability following for high insert of cash crops. Field mustard that can be grown as a cover crop alone or in a mix with other family of Brassica legumes or small grains. Mustard plant is the plant which is mostly used as a food flavoring, as an emetic, diuretic, and for forage, as well as a tropical treatment for inflammatory conditions such as rheumatism and arthritis. Mustard plants also have the potential for pharmacological effects in disease of cardiovascular, cancer, and also in diabetes; however, there are constrained clinical tribulations to fortify its use for any designation.
Root colonization in this crop may vary from 28.53% to 46.53% at different places of district Chaheru village, while spore population ranged between 100 to 300 per gram of soil. Sixteen species of VAM fungi belonging to 4 different genera were identified. Among of these Alternaria-brassicae and Colletotrichum-gloeosporioids were mostly found in dominating and distributed in Root followed by Peronospora parasitica and Rhizoctonia solani were distributed mostly only in the Leaves.VAM fungi Acaulospora elegans and Acaulospora sporocarp were mostly found. Colonization per cent has paramount and positive correlation with the spore’s density. The Physicochemical properties of the soil especially pH, organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and available potassium influence the population dynamics and colonization of VAM Mycorrhiza in mustard crops (Arpita et al.,

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