ICRISAT and EMBRAPA jointly developed a global composite collection, consisting of
1000 diverse groundnut accessions, which included 184 groundnut mini core subset
(Upadhyaya et al. 2002), another 184 mini core comparator, 110 accessions from Asia
core and mini core, 408 elite germplasm/cultivars and trait-specific (resistance to biotic
and abiotic stresses, early maturity and/or fresh seed dormancy, large-seed, high shelling
percentage, high oil and/or protein content, and interspecific derivatives) accessions, and
114 wild Arachis accessions. This composite collection has been molecularly profiled
using 21 SSRs in high throughput assay (ABI3700)
