??Identification of Groundnut Germplasm Lines for Foliar Disease Resistance and High Oleic Traits using SNP and Gene-based Markers and Their Morphological Characterization

Background: Resistance to foliar fungal diseases along with oleic acid trait, are important objectives of groundnut breeding. Among diseases, rust and Late Leaf Spot (LLS) cause significant economic loss high trait is preferred in industry that enhances values crop. Methods: Morphological characterization the 186-groundnut germplasm lines/genotypes for ten yield attributing traits their significance correlation was analyzed using SPSS ver. 19 software at 1% 5% probability level significance. Screening LLS done employing 10X SNP assay ICRISAT, Hyderabad, India. Selected superior line(s) were screened presence FAD2B allele responsible specific marker. Result: Significant positive found between dry weight hundred pod (r=0.0.801) harvest index (r=0.0.830). Molecular morphological identified highly diversified lines groundnut. This study reports 78 disease resistant lines. 11 represented resistance against trait.