 In addition, field cress provides important ecosystem-services as it functions as a cover crop during winter and can be undersown a spring cereal.The oil of field cress is suitable for different industrial applications such as production of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil diesel (HVO).The researchers at SLU have identified and mapped several genes in field cress that are known to be important for domestication related traits such as flowering time, pod shattering and seed dormancy.