“…However, these regions are subjected to severe water-deficient conditions and seasonal drought, particularly from early May to the mid-May, the area covered by drought has been above 30% of the nation’s crop (Yang et al, 2018; Zhang et al, 2018; Figure 1A). According to the statistics of the Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China (2018), the annual loss of industrial crops caused by drought in China accounts to 28.22 billion yuan, and peanuts account for about 20% (Li et al, 2014; Aninbon et al, 2016; Qin et al, 2017). Planting spring cultivars earlier is a feasible measure to circumvent spring sowing drought in peanut production, as well as in prolonging the vegetative growth period and increase nutrient accumulation for crop propagation (Rana et al, 2017).…”