The ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research is playing a key role in advancing rapeseed-mustard research in frontier areas through multidisciplinary approach. The most significant achievements of this directorate include:

• Palladium complex method developed for estimation of total glucosinolates in seed meal of rapeseed-mustard using ELISA READER.
• Using partial least square regression, calibration for non-destructive estimation of erucic acid and glucosinolate content in seeds of rapeseed-mustard by Fourier transform near infra-red reflectance spectroscopy (FT-NIRS) was developed.
• 147 core set was analyzed for different biochemical characters (total glucosinolate content, oil content, fatty acid profile, total phenolic acid, total fibre content, total antioxidant activity, DPPH activity, allyl isothiocyanate content. C-IV-20, C-II 19, C-III-17, C-IV-29 were identified as low erucic acid (< 2%) lines.
• Identification of potential furans i.e. 5-Hydroxymethyl-2-furancarboxaldehyde (HMF) in Indian mustard through GC-MS
• 44 genotypes analyzed for 14 different biochemical characters.