The present work demonstrates the successful expression
of rinderpest virus hemagglutinin protein in transgenic
peanut plant, an otherwise recalcitrant legume.
The transformation efficiency obtained is as high as
67%. Earlier we have reported 47% transformation
efficiency using the cotyledon explant [15] where the
transgenic plants were regenerated via somatic embryogenesis.
In the present work, transgenic plants were
regenerated through direct organogenesis thus showing
that different explants respond differently to the same
concentration of growth hormone. The concentration of
BAP used here is the same as reported by Venkatachalam
et al. [15]. The results are comparable to that
obtained by Sharma et al.