Chapter One
Peanut Breeding and Genetic
Resources
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
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