Patent ID: 8581028

Claim:
A method for breeding sesame plants to result in improved non-dehiscent sesame lines, comprising: crossing a plurality of sesame plants in a series of successive crosses, at least one of said plurality exhibiting a CAPSULE SPLIT rating of 1 to 3, at least one of said plurality exhibiting a CAPSULE OPENING rating of 5 to less than 8, at least one of said plurality exhibiting a CAPSULE MEMBRANE COMPLETENESS rating of 5 to 8, at least one of said plurality exhibiting a CAPSULE CONSTRICTION rating from 3 to 6, at least one of said plurality exhibiting a CAPSULE MEMBRANE ATTACHMENT rating from 4 to 8, and at least one of said plurality exhibiting a CAPSULE PLACENTA ATTACHMENT rating from 4 to 8; and screening progeny of any one of a series of successive crosses for non-dehiscent characteristics including greater than or equal to 85% of the capsules retaining essentially all of their seed in unharvested capsules four weeks after the ideal harvest time, seed is visible in 85% or more of the capsules four weeks after the ideal harvest time, less than or equal to 10% of the total amount of sesame seed is retained in mechanically harvested capsules, and less than or equal to 7% of the total amount of sesame seed released from capsules is broken during mechanical harvesting.