A New Early Maturing, High Quality and Yielding Peanut, “Baekseon” for Vegetable Fruit

Abstract

A new peanut variety “Baekseon” (Arachis hypogaea ssp. fastigiata L.) was developed at the Yeongnam Agricultural Research Institute, NICS, in Milyang in 2004. It was developed from the cross between the disease resistant cultivar “Suwon95” and the early maturing cultivar “Suwon94". “Beakseon” which has Shinpung plant type is less branch number with early flowering and long ellipse-shaped large kernel. Each pod which showed very shallow constriction had two grains with light brown testa and 100 seed weight was 96 g in the regional yield trials(RYT). This variety also contained higher free sugar and protein contents in seed quality, and had more resistant to early and late leaf spots and web blotch compared with check one. In the regional yield trials “Baekseon” was outyielded than check variety by 16% with 8.64 MT/ha for fresh pod and by 12% with 3.66 MT/ha for grain. It was evaluated to be suitable for vegetable peanut by its fresh pod yield and related characteristics.