Mustard plant

Grinding and mixing the seeds with water, vinegar, or other liquids creates the yellow condiment known as prepared mustard.

Wild forms of mustard and its relatives, the radish and turnip, can be found over West Asia and Europe, suggesting their domestication took place somewhere in that area.

[3] A wide-ranging genetic study of B. rapa announced in 2021 concluded that the species may have been domesticated as long as 6,000 years ago in Central Asia, and turnips or oilseeds might have been the first product.

Many varieties exist, e.g., in Germany[7] and the Netherlands,[8] mostly differing in lateness of flowering and resistance against white beet-cyst nematode (Heterodera schachtii).

[citation needed] Mustard species' are a common host plant to Phaedon cochleariae, a beetle native to Europe.