Chapter One

C. Corley Holbrook U.S. Department of Agriculture-ARS P.O. Box 748 Tifton, Georgia 31793

H. Thomas Stalker Department of Crop Sciences North Carolina State University P.O. Box 7620 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695

I. INTRODUCTION II. EVOLUTION AND TAXONOMY III. REPRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT IV. CYTOGENETICS AND GENOMES V. GENETIC RESOURCES A. Collections B. Germplasm Exchange C. Core Collections VI. BREEDING PEANUT A. Conventional Breeding Methods B. Marker-Assisted Selection C. Interspecific Hybridization D. Transgenic Technology VII. SUMMARY LITERATURE CITED

I. INTRODUCTION

Peanut is widely used as an oilseed crop around the world and as a direct source of human food in the United States. Several species of peanut have been cultivated for their edible seeds, but only Arachis hypogaea L. has been domesticated and widely distributed. Production in the United States is completely mechanized, but in many other regions the seeds are planted and harvested by han ... read full excerpt from Plant Breeding Reviews ebook