At a Glance
Georgia-09B combines the excellent roasted flavor of Georgia Green with the high-oleic trait in a medium maturity, medium seeded, runner-type peanut variety. It has the high-oleic and low-linoleic fatty acid ratio for improved oil quality and longer shelf-life of peanut and peanut products. Georgia-09B originated from the first backcross made with the Georgia Green cultivar as the recurrent parent.
Yield
Georgia-09B has high yields, high TSMK (total sound mature kernels) grades and high dollar value returns per acre.
Fruit
Medium
Testing
During more than 27 multi-location tests from 2006 to 2008 in Georgia, Georgia-09B had a lower percent TSWV (tomato spotted wilt virus) disease incidence, higher pod yield, higher TSMK (total sound mature kernels) grade, larger seed size and higher dollar value return per acre compared to Georgia Green.
During tests from 2007 through 2009, Georgia-09B was also found to have the best overall performance compared to four other high-oleic runner-types: Florida-07, York, AT-3085RO and McCloud.
Development
Georgia-09B was developed by Dr. William D. Branch at the University of Georgia’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, Ga., and released in 2009. This protected peanut variety can only be sold as a class of certified seed by individuals who are licensed by the University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF) and Georgia Seed Development (GSD).
Breeder
Dr. William D. Branch
Dr. William D. Branch is an award-winning plant breeder who oversees the peanut breeding program at the University of Georgia’s Tifton campus. He has long been actively involved in the development of improved varieties of peanuts. These desirable traits include increasing yield, grade, better shelling characteristics and shelf-life; enhancing flavor and nutritional qualities; and improving resistance to disease, insects, viruses, nematodes, aflatoxin and drought.
Since joining UGA in 1978 as an Assistant Geneticist, Dr. Branch has received numerous awards for his work, including the Dow AgroScience Award for Excellence in Research (2005), the American Peanut Council’s Peanut Research and Education Award (2003) and the Georgia Crop Improvement Association Distinguished Service Award (2003).
Dr. Branch holds a 100 percent research appointment in peanut breeding. It normally takes about 10 years to develop a new cultivar, and he has released 19 new peanut cultivars from 1986 through 2012 (including one a year from 1999 through 2012). He holds seven plant patents and has been involved in the publication of numerous plant breeding and crop science papers.
Dr. Branch has served as Chairman, Peanut Crop Registration Committee for Crop Science Society of America; Coordinator, National Uniform Peanut Performance Tests involving all major peanut states; and as a member of the Peanut Crop Germplasm Committee of the USDA National Plant Germplasm System. He also served on the Georgia Crop Improvement Association Advisory Committee and the Peanut Commodity Committee and the Plant Cultivar and Germplasm Release committees of the UGA College of College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
His professional affiliations include the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, the American Peanut Research and Education Society, the American Genetic Association, the Council of Agricultural Science and Technology, the American Peanut Council, and Sigma Xi.
He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, OK.
Affiliations
- Department of Crop & Soil Sciences
- University of Georgia, Tifton Campus