Registration Of ‘Walin’ (BG-004-1) Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Variety

Abstract

The name Walin was given to sesame variety developed and released by Bako agricultural research center of Oromia agricultural research institute  in the year 2017. It is selected from landraces collection made in Benishangul Gumuz area after pure and homogenous line is developed from  population with accession number BG004-1. This variety gave high grain yield with 22.2% advantage over the standard check, Chalasa and has high  oil content (55.1%).The GGE-biplot analysis also indicated that this variety is stable and gave high yield. Furthermore, Walin is tolerant to bacterial blight,  relatively larger seed size, white seeded and erect growth habit. It was released for Uke, Chewaka and Angare Gute areas and similar agro ecologies.