The Sesame Genome

Economic and Academic Importance.- Botanical descriptions.- Oil composition and nutrition.- Genetic Resources.- Classical Genetics.- Germplasm creation and breeding.- Genetic Inkage maps, mapping of genes and QTLs.- Cytological details of genome.- Structural & functional genomic resources developed.- Requirement of whole-genome sequencing.- Background history of the national and international genome initiatives, public and private partners involved.- Strategies & tools for sequencing.- Enumeration of sequences.- Assembly.- Repetitive sequences.- Gene annotation.- Genome duplication.- Synteny with allied & model genomes.- Comparison of gene families.- Impact on germplasm characterization & gene discovery.- Impact on plant breeding.- Future Prospects.

Prof. Hongmei Miao focuses on sesame genomics, genetics and breeding techniques research. She works in Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences of China and has been appointed as the Distinguished Professor of Zhengzhou University of ChinaShe has been appointed as Agricultural System Scientist by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural affairs of China. She has presided tens of national scientific research programs and fellowships such as the Chinese National Natural fund and the Chinese National Agricultural Research program (CARs). She has published more than 40 scientific papers about sesame genetics, genetic engineering and disease resistance mechanism studies. She has bred 15 sesame varieties and authorized 16 Chinese invention patents. She has been awarded with the National Second Prize for Technological Invention, the Provincial First Prize for Progress in Science and Technology, and two pieces of Provincial Second Prize for Progress in Science and Technology. She also has been honored with a number of awards including the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Youth Award conferred by the Crop Science Society of China and the Outstanding Scientific Talent and the Outstanding Scientific Youth awarded by the Henan Province Government. As one of the initiators of the Sesame Genome Project (SGP), she carries on the genome evolution and genome architecture analysis in sesame and achieves remarkable progresses.