Abstract:In order to obtain new peanut materials, a peanut mutant bank was conducted using 60Co-radiation on peanut dry seed. A lot of valuable mutants, such as high-oil content, high-protein content, large-seed, small-seed, large-leaf, small-leaf, and curly-leaf mutants were obtained. The M2 and M3 generation were analyzed and It’s found that 60Co-γ radiation greatly affected the height, leaves, oil-content, protein-content, podding number, single grain weight, O/L ratio and kernel rate. The correlation analysis on seven traits (seeds weight, protein content, linoleic acid content, oleic acid content, oil content, single seed weight and pod weight), showed that there existed high-correlations between linoleic acid content and oleic acid content, oil content and linoleic acid content, oleic acid content., whereas oil content and protein content showed high negative correlation. Oil content and pod weight showed low correlation. These mutants are excellent materials for peanut genetic breeding and mechanism study, also for peanut functional genomics researches.