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The article offers information related to taily weed, a shrub bearing sweet fruit with glucosinolates in its pulp and myrosinase enzyme in its seed which is found to be resposible for altering behavior in mice as observed by scientist Michal Samuni-Blank.

The article announces that six growers in Shropshire, England, will be planting 4 hectare (ha) blocks of Caliente mustard to evaluate its potential for use within a potato cyst nematode control programme. It states that Caliente, and some other brassica crops, contained high levels of glucosinolates, which when the plant dies were broken down into isothiocyanates that acted as biofumigant. Typically the crop needed to be grown for 6 to 7 weeks before being macerated and incorporated into the soil.

Presents a way to suppress the increasing soil-borne rhizoctonia in farms. Use of glucosinolate substances released by brassica plants; Processes involved in the farming process.