RT 351 - A Multicapsular High Yielding White Seeded Sesame Variety

摘要

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.), commonly known as til, is the oldest indigenous oilseed crop cultivated in the world, particularly in Asia and Africa for its excellent nutritional, medicinal, cosmetic and cooking qualities of its oil (Duhoon et al. 2000). It is a rich source of protein (24%) and carbohydrate (15%) in addition to excellent source of quality oil (50%). In India it is grown in of 1.87 M ha area with production of 0.76 M t (Anonymous, 2009a). Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharastra, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Karnataka are the major sesame growing states of India. In Rajasthan; it is grown over an area of 0.55 M ha with production of 0.22 M t (Anonymous, 2010). Nearly 30% of the area and production of sesame is from Rajasthan state, but the productivity of the crop is low (408 kg ha~(-1)). Farmers of the state, particularly of western region, prefer to grow multicapsular sesame, but such available cultivar is highly susceptible to diseases and pests. Although AICRP, Mandor centre has released three white seeded high yielding sesame varieties, namely RT 46 (1990), RT 127 (1999) and RT 346 (Kumhar et. al, 2009) which also predominate in cultivation of sesame in the state, but all these are having alternate arrangement of capsules (1-2 capsules per node) on plants.