• Should industrial Sesame byproducts be used as a protein source?
  • Future studies should pay more attention to the comprehensive utilization of industrial sesame byproducts, especially sesame protein as an important protein source, so as to avoid sesame resource waste. The authors appreciate the support of HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund.
  • What are the pretreatment methods for sesame oil?
  • Solid-phase extraction, liquid¨Cliquid extraction, TLC, and saponification are the prime pretreatment methods, and another pretreatment method is the further extraction of the sesame oil from the pressed sesame meal using supercritical CO 2 extraction [ 29 ].
  • What are the byproducts of sesame oil?
  • Additionally, the byproducts of sesame oil also contain various kinds of other bioactive substances such as sesamin, sesamolin, sesamol, and starch [ 6 ]. Although the demand for sesame oil, sesame paste, and other sesame products is increasing, sesame meal has not been fully utilized in our daily life.
  • What is sesame oil?
  • 1. Introduction Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) is one of the oldest cultivated oilseed crops, known for its resilient growth in arid conditions and highly valued seeds for their oil and nutritional content.
  • Can genetic engineering improve oil content and seed yield in sesame plants?
  • Genetic engineering techniques have been used to enhance the oil content and seed yield in sesame plants by targeting essential enzymes involved in oil synthesis, including diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT), phospholipid diacylglycerol acyltransferases (PDAT), fatty acid desaturases (FAD), and cytochrome b 5 (Muthulakshmi et al., 2021).
  • How to improve sesame seed yield?
  • Key traits such as early flowering, plant height, fruiting zone length, number of primary branches, capsule length, 1000-seed weight, shatter-resistant capsules, seed weight per plant, and seed oil content play an important role in improving sesame seed yield (Zhou et al., 2018; Baraki et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2024).