Description:
Titan is derived by selfing from an F4 plant selected from the cross of VA 8911215 with 'Shosh'. Shosh is an Israeli cultivar developed at the Volcani Institute of the Israel Ministry of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Organization at Bet Dagan, Israel. VA 8911215 is an unreleased breeding line selected from the cross of VA780839P with 'VA 81B'. It also is a sib of VA 98R. VA 780839P is an unreleased sister line of NC-V 11 selected from a cross of two unreleased NCSU breeding lines, NC Ac 17257 and NC Ac 17922. NC Ac 17257 was selected from the cross of 'Florigiant' with 'NC 5'; NC Ac 17922 was selected from the cross of Florigiant with PI 337396, a valencia-type line (A. hypogaea subsp. fastigiata Waldron var. fastigiata) collected by Antonio Krapovickas in the city market of Corrientes, Conientes Prov., Argentina.