Genetic Improvement in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.): Progress and Outlook: A Review

Sesame production and productivity are severely constrained by a lack of high-yielding locally adapted varieties, susceptibility to capsule shattering low seed retention, biotic abiotic stresses, modern pre- post-harvest technologies. Unimproved landraces widely cultivated in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia. The landrace varieties yielders (<0.6 tons·ha?1), but they possess intrinsic oil quality characteristics, such as unique aroma taste. Therefore, current future sesame genetic improvement programs should integrate yield- quality-promoting traits, local adaptation, amenability machine harvesting, other industrially essential food feed attributes for multiple utilities. This can be achieved integrating the conventional breeding methods, well genomic techniques mutation genomics-assisted breeding. objective this review is document progress, opportunities, challenges with regard improvement, variety release, deployment enhanced yield related agronomic content fatty acid compositions. highlights sesame’s economic values, status, major constraints, breeding, their integration, accelerated cultivar development market-preferred traits.