Registration of 'Nkatiesari' Peanut

CV-84, PI641926 is a peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. subsp. hypogaea var. hypogaea) cultivar developed by the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Nyankpala, Ghana, of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and released by the National Varietal Release Committee of Ghana on 9 Oct. 2005. In these trials conducted without chemical control of leafspot infections, Nkatiesari consistently had lower leaf damage from early and late leafspot (score of 4 to 5) compared to 'Chinese' (the most commercially important cultivar in northern Ghana) with a score of 7 to 9, on a scale of 1 (no leafspot) to 9 (complete defoliation due to leafspot) (Frimpong, 2004).