

The gap between low groundnut yields in Nigeria and those achieved in other major groundnut-producing countries is set to reduce thanks to new elite lines with multiple resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Several promising lines have already been identified by ICRISAT-Nigeria after evaluating more than 500 advanced breeding/elite lines over the wet and dry seasons in 2014. The next step over the coming seasons in collaboration with its NARS partners – the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) and the Bayero University of Kano (BUK)-is to confirm the superiority of the most promising lines in trials.