MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517006680 A) filed by Henan Sesame Research Center, Henan Academy Of Agricultural Sciences, Henan, China, on Jan. 27, for 'sesame seed shattering character regulation and control gene sihec3 and use thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Zhang, Haiyang.; Miao, Hongmei; Ju, Ming; Ma, Qin; Cao, Hengchun; Zhang, Zhanyou; Li, Guiting; Duan, Yinghui; Mu, Cong; Tian, Qiuzhen; Wang, Huili; Qin, Lingling; and Huang, Yingying.
The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present application relates to a sesame seed shattering character regulation and control gene Sihec3 and the use thereof. The gene is located on the No.3 chromosome of sesame and is a recessive control gene, the proportion of a non-seed-shattering character phenotypic variation explained by same being 100%. On the basis of offspring materials of a non-seed-shattering mutant M7, the present application uses F2 populations and F2:3 populations of constructed hybridized combinations to separately develop the genetic analysis related to the seed shattering character. The researching shows that in test populations, the sesame non-seed-shattering mutation character is a recessive character and is controlled by a single gene. Furthermore, the present application uses an independently constructed sesame genome fine map and efficient sesame gene mapping technology to perform cloning and comparative researching on the key gene Sihec3 for regulating and controlling the sesame seed shattering character and an allele SiHEC3 thereof, and develops a corresponding sesame non-seed-shattering gene marker."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 31, 2024, under International application No.PCT/CN2024/075020.
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