Nature Genetics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02577-z"> Phenotypes and genome characterization. Credit: Nature Genetics (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-026-02577-z

An international team of researchers has produced complete, gap-free genome sequences for six peanut varieties, providing a comprehensive blueprint for future peanut breeding and improvement strategies.

Building a complete peanut genome map

For a new paper published in Nature Genetics , researchers sequenced two wild ancestors of cultivated peanut, four cultivated varieties, and developed reference genomes for two peanut subspecies that had never been fully mapped.…