Xiujuan Yan¹ , Xin He² , Yunxia Zhao¹ , Jingxia Gao¹ , Xuemei Wang¹

1 Institute of Germplasm Resources, Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Yinchuan Ningxia, 750002, China
2 General Station of Forest Pest Management and Quarantine of Ningxia, Yinchuan Ningxia, 750001, China
Author    Correspondence author
Molecular Plant Breeding, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 2   doi: 10.5376/mpb.2021.12.0002
Received: 03 Jan., 2021    Accepted: 07 Jan., 2021    Published: 15 Jan., 2021

This article was first published in Molecular Plant Breeding in Chinese, and here was authorized to translate and publish the paper in English under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Yan X.J., He X., Zhao Y.X., Gao J.X., and Wang X.M., 2021, Progress and perspective on Chinese state field trials for sesame new varieties in the past 40 years, Molecular Plant Breeding, 12(2): 1-10 (doi: 10.5376/mpb.2021.12.0002)

Chinese sesame state field trial began in 1983. Since then, 44 varieties have been recommended or approved by state sesame certification committee. Most of the listed varieties have been widely utilized in agricultural production. In this review, we summarize the main achievements in the past 40 years and point out existing problems in sesame regional field test after a brief retrospection in China. The advancement of sesame breeding was also summarized and highlighted by the performance of some representative new sesame varieties recommended by the national field trial. Then, the problems in sesame breeding and state field trial were discussed. Finally, we provided some suggestions for the sesame breeding and state field trial that may be of interest of the sesame community in future.

Sesame; State sesame regional field trial; Variety