Prospect of Designed Breeding in Sesame in the Post-genomics Era

The achievement of the Sesame Genome Project supplies the necessary information for sesame genome assisted selection breeding. The information of the structural genomics and functional genomics research in sesame provides the foundation of genome architecture analysis. Cloning of many genes and gene families makes the possibility of aggregating a number of elite traits in new varieties. In order to enhance the variety improvement, the specific genome assisted selection breeding technology for sesame is designed and discussed in this chapter. The potential of the genome assisted selection and gene design breeding in sesame is forecasted accordingly.