Incredible Feats of Plant Breeding: Peanut Breeders Deliver A KO to the Notorious RKN!

Peanut Breeders Deliver A KO to the Notorious RKN

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Plant Breeding Coordinating Committee This comic book style graphic tells the story of how scientists identified the gene in wild peanuts that codes for resistance to the destructive root knot nematode, discovered they had already bred it into a peanut that was cross compatible with high yielding cultivars, and produced such a cultivar in just over a decade. For more content like this, visit Crop Database Resources.

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