Not AvailableGeneeffectsforimportantquantitative traits of five crosses of sesame (SesamumindicumL.)wereestimatedbypartitioningthemeansandvariancesofmeansofsixbasicgenerationsfromeachcrossintotheirgeneticcomponentstoassessthegeneactiongoverningtheinheritanceoftraits.The additive, dominance and digenicnon-allelic gene interactions were observed to govern most oftheyieldtraits.The non-additive gene effects weremorepronouncedthanadditiveonesformostofthetraits.TheA,B,CandDscalesshowedhighlysignificantvaluesforallthetraits and crosses studied and departure from zero indicated the presence of epistasis. But, these testsverifyonlythepresenceofepistasisbutdonotprovidethekindofgene action. This indicates the inadequacy ofscalingandjointscalingtestandpresenceofnonallelicinteractions.Thenextpossibilityistoincludetheeffectofepistasiswhichcanbeestimatedasadditivexadditive,additive x dominance and dominance x dominance geneeffects in the inheritance of the charactersNot Availabl
