**7. CRISPR/Cas system for oil production and quality improvement in sesame**

Although some of the candidates for oil characteristics are extremely suggestive, they are still suspected causal genes. The creation of several biparental populations from well-designed crosses will increase mapping resolution, allow epistatic interactions to be identified, and allow the development of new germplasm with improved phenotypic performance. To validate the impacts of these candidate genes and their functional variations for the connections underpinning oil characteristics, functional genomics approaches such as genetic transformation and genomeediting technologies using the CRISPR/Cas system are needed. Sesame genes for oil production and quality are likely to play major roles in other closely related oilseed species (for example, sunflower), allowing researchers to search for genes with similar functions. This work in sesame may provide unique knowledge and guiding examples for continuing genetic investigations for oilseed crops with more complicated genomes [35].
