An overview of peanut and its wild relatives

DJ Bertioli, G Seijo, FO Freitas, JFM Valls… - Plant Genetic …, 2011 - cambridge.org
The legume Arachis hypogaea, commonly known as peanut or groundnut, is a very
important food crop throughout the tropics and sub-tropics. The genus is endemic to South …

A study of the relationships of cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea) and its most closely related wild species using intron sequences and microsatellite markers

MC Moretzsohn, EG Gouvea, PW Inglis… - Annals of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The genus Arachis contains 80 described species. Section
Arachis is of particular interest because it includes cultivated peanut, an allotetraploid, and …

Marker-assisted introgression of wild chromosome segments conferring resistance to fungal foliar diseases into peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

MC Moretzsohn, JF Santos, ARA Moraes… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Fungal foliar diseases can severely affect the productivity of the peanut crop
worldwide. Late leaf spot is the most frequent disease and a major problem of the crop in …

Phylogenetic relationships in genus Arachis based on ITS and 5.8S rDNA sequences

MD Bechara, MC Moretzsohn, DA Palmieri… - BMC Plant …, 2010 - Springer
Abstract Background The genus Arachis comprises 80 species and it is subdivided into nine
taxonomic sections (Arachis, Caulorrhizae, Erectoides, Extranervosae, Heteranthae …

Matita, a new retroelement from peanut: characterization and evolutionary context in the light of the Arachis A–B genome divergence

S Nielen, BS Vidigal, SCM Leal-Bertioli… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2012 - Springer
Cultivated peanut is an allotetraploid with an AB-genome. In order to learn more of the
genomic structure of peanut, we characterized and studied the evolution of a …

Identification of peanut (Arachis hypogaea) chromosomes using a fluorescence in situ hybridization system reveals multiple hybridization events during tetraploid …

L Zhang, X Yang, L Tian, L Chen, W Yu - New Phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The cultivated peanut Arachis hypogaea (AABB) is thought to have originated from the
hybridization of Arachis duranensis (AA) and Arachis ipaënsis (BB) followed by …

Cytology as an important tool for solving evolutionary problems in Angiosperms

G Sharma, N Sharma - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences …, 2014 - Springer
The usefulness and reliability of cytological methods for studying evolutionary problems has
been recognized for a long time. Cytological characters used for determining …

ARACHIS VEIGAE (FABACEAE), THE MOST DISPERSED WILD SPECIES OF THE GENUS, AND YET TAXONOMICALLY OVERLOOKED

SH Santana, JFM Valls - Bonplandia, 2015 - JSTOR
A new Brazilian species of Arachis L. is described. Arachis veigae SH Santana & Valls nov.
sp, morphologically close to A. pusilla Benth., is distinguished by the absence of a prominent …

Relationships of the wild peanut species, section Arachis: A resource for botanical classification, crop improvement, and germplasm management

SCM Leal‐Bertioli, FJ de Blas… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Wild species are strategic sources of valuable traits to be introduced into crops
through hybridization. For peanut, the 33 currently described wild species in the section …

[PDF][PDF] Chromosome number and karyotype analysis of some taxa of Vicia genus (Fabaceae): revision and description.

S El-Bok, A Zoghlami-Khelil, T Ben-Brahim, A Ouji… - 2014 - academia.edu
Karyotypes of 15 accessions belonging to five species of Vicia were determined.
Chromosomes number varied between species and subspecies. V. cordata had …