Background Peanut butter is known as a healthy food . It is a type one hypersensitivity reaction to dietary substances from peanuts causing an overreaction of the immune system which in a small percentage of children may lead to severe physical symptoms. Peanut allergy is one of the most common causes of anaphylaxis, a pediatrics medical emergency that requires treatment with an epinephrine (ad...

The effect of corn and peanut cultivation on the proportion of Aspergillus flavus to A. parasiticus in soil was examined. Soil populations were monitored in three fields during three different years in southwestern Georgia. Each field was planted in both peanuts and corn, and soil was sampled within plots for each crop. A. flavus and A. parasiticus were present in similar proportions in plots f...

Background Peanut oral immunotherapy is both safe and effective in the treatment of children with peanut allergy but study protocols demand large resource commitment, limiting their adoption in routine clinical practice. We present 8 selected peanut allergic children who have achieved either full tolerance or an increased threshold to peanuts following a home based, low dose introduction of pea...

A comparison of the invasion of flowers, aerial pegs, and kernels by wild-type and mutant strains of Aspergillusflavas or A. parasiticus along with aflatoxin analyses of kernels from different drought treatments have supported the hypothesis that preharvest contamination with aflatoxin originates mainly from the soil. Evidence in support of soil invasion as opposed to aerial invasion was the fo...

Peanuts receive major emphasis because of the crop's importance to the economy of southeastern Virginia and the magnitude of pesticide use in crop management. In 1992, growers planted 93,000 acres of the crop and harvested an estimated 123,225 tons of peanuts with a value of ca. 79 million dollars in farm income. When coupled with the shelling, processing and shipping industries in the Tidewate...

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) produces flowers aerially, but the fruit develops underground. This process is mediated by the gynophore,which always grows vertically downwards. The genetic basis underlying gravitropic bending of gynophores is not well understood. To identify genes related to gynophore gravitropism, gene expression profiles of gynophores cultured in vitro with tip pointing upward ...

Many plant ESTs have been sequenced as an alternative to whole genome sequences, including peanut because of the genome size and complexity. The US peanut research community had the historic 2004 Atlanta Genomics Workshop and named the EST project as a main priority. As of August 2011, the peanut research community had deposited 252,832 ESTs in the public NCBI EST database, and this resource ha...

Peanut is one of the most important crops in the world, both for vegetative oil and as a protein source. Biotechnology approaches provide promising ways to increase peanut productivity, either through improved seed quality or stress resistance. These approaches require the identification of genes that control important agronomical traits, the understanding of gene regulation and metabolic pathw...

Groundnut genotype AK-280 was treated with EMS 40 mM, 60 mM, gamma rays 30 kR, 40 kR, 50 kR and combination treatment of EMS 20 mM + gamma rays 20 kR. The observations on various quantitative characters were recorded in M2 generation. The flowering and maturity period was not much affected. For the character height of main axis genotype showed differential response to different treatments of mu...

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the important economic crops world. It world’s fourth most source edible oil and third vegetable protein. A study was conducted at Department Seed Science Technology, B. A. College Agriculture, AAU, Anand, to investigate morphological molecular characterization in different Arachis spp. The experiment laid out randomized complete block design with two r...