Paper Title
Peanut Mutants Resistant to Aflatoxin Induced Through Gamma Ray and Somaclonal Variation and its Associated Genetic Molecular Markers

Abstract
Regeneration protocol for peanut has been established through this investigation. Seeds of eight peanut varieties: Giza-5, Giza-6, Ismailia-1, Sohag-104, Sohag-110, R-92, Virginia and Gregory were irradiated with five gamma ray doses: 0, 50, 100, 200 and 300Gy, then developed Calli were evaluated under the culture filtrate of the aflatoxigenic fungi in Lab. The resistant R0 plantlets were transferred to greenhouse to acclimatization process. Evaluation of R1 and R2 populations were done under artificially infestation conditions with aflatoxigenic fungi: Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. CMPM-2, CMPM-6 and CMPM-8 were three newly developed mutants that presented a highly resistant to aflatoxin contamination compared to the parental varieties. Ten RAPD primers and seven ISSR primers across the eight peanut varieties and three newly developed resistant mutants were used to genetically characterize of the eleven genotypes. Index Terms� Arachis Hypogaea, Aflatoxin Contamination, Mutation Induction, Molecular Genetic Markers.