%O This work was carried out at the Genetic Transformation Laboratory of ICRISAT, Patancheru, India.  We thank D Srinivas Reddy for his useful suggestions and SN Nigam for helpful discussions. The funding support in part by the Natural Science Fund of Shandong Province and HarvestPlus Global Challenge Program on Biofortification is gratefully acknowledged
%A Y Mei
%A K K Sharma
%A V Anjaiah
%A LI Shuangling
%A T A O Hai-teng
%A R Yan
%A Y U Shan-lin
%I International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
%V 25
%L icrisat3212
%J International Arachis Newsletter
%P 30-32
%D 2005
%X Based on the most conserved region of the MADS box, a pair of degenerate primers were designed and used to amplify the genomic DNA of groundnut (cv. JL 24). The results indicate that an amplified fragment, related to flower development, showed a high homology to the MADS-box protein of Arabidopsis thaliana. This study laid the foundation for obtaining the full length of the MADS-box gene in groundnut
%T An effective method for cloning of partial MADS-box genes related to flower development in groundnut