The present investigation was carried out to identify eleven sesame lines during two
successive seasons (2016 and 2017). The phenotypic variance (σ2
ᵖ) was greater than the corresponding
variance for all studied traits except capsule thickness. The genotypic variance and phenotypic
variance values for number of capsules/plant and oil yield/fad., were high over the two years. High
broad-sense heritability accompanied with high genetic advance was recorded for No. of branches/
plant, seed yield/plant and seed yield/fad. Five SSR primers were used for fingerprinting of the eleven
sesame genotypes generated 19 bands, 10 of them were polymorphic with 53% polymorphism, N.A554
produced one band negative marker in primer SSR1. Line 59-3-1 produced two band markers, one of
them negative marker in primer SSR1 and the other positive marker in primer SSR5, while Line 82-7
produced one band positive marker in primer SSR5.