STUDIES ON GENE EFFECTS FOR OIL AND SOME YIELD ATTRIBUTING TRAITS IN SESAME (Sesamum indicum L.)....

Sesame is a prized Indian oil crop that produces high-quality edible oil. One of the most important goals of modern sesame initiatives is the development of high-oil-content cultivars. Inheritance of oil content, seed yield, and other agronomic features in sesame was studied utilising combining ability and an 8-parental half-diallel cross. The findings demonstrated that both additive and nonadditive gene effects have a role in regulating the expression of the characteristics in question. The additive genetic system was more relevant for capsule length and oil content, while nonadditive gene effects controlled most other features. All of the characters had a strong sense of epistasis. AT 177 was the highest general combiner for oil content and other yield-related features among the parents, followed by AT 158 and AT 192. It was not always possible to find a link between parent performance and combined ability impacts. High x low gca parents were used in the majority of good specialised combiners. Involvement of high gca parents implies a strong ability to transfer unique genetic architecture for sesame oil content in following generations, which could result in favourable transgressive segregates.

Please see the link :- https://www.ikprress.org/index.php/JOGAE/article/view/852