Abstract: Application of partial transmit sequences (PTS) method for the reduction of peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in real-valued OFDM systems is considered in this paper. When directly applying the existing PTS schemes (established based on complex-valued systems) to realvalued systems, one may encounter a difficulty in constructing phase sequences sets that are used to generate the candidates to be chosen for transmission. To overcome the difficulty, the approaches are proposed for two PTS schemes, the adjacent partition (AP-PTS) and the interleaved partition (IP-PTS), to be able to apply to real-valued systems. For the AP-PTS, the difficulty, i.e., the requirement of conjugate symmetry on the phase sequences, is circumvented by re-arranging the data sequence. For the IP-PTS, direct constructing phase sequences sets is avoided; instead the real-valued time domain sequences sets are constructed that correspond to the IDFT of the phase sequences sets, and then used to directly generate the real-valued OFDM candidate signals in the time domain. A distinct feature of the IP-PTS is that only one IDFT is necessary to generate the candidate OFDM signals. Simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of the AP-PTS and IP-PTS schemes. The results show that both schemes can effectively reduce the PAPR of a real-valued OFDM system.