Location: Crop Protection and Management Research
Project Number: 6048-21000-028-001-T
Project Type: Trust Fund Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jan 1, 2015
End Date: Dec 31, 2019
Objective:
To use marker-assisted selection (MAS) in backcross to transfer the traits of disease resistance and high oleic acid into elite peanut lines.
Approach:
A backcrossing schedule with MAS will be used to transfer a trait of interest into elite lines. The final products will be high oleic lines with disease resistance.