An 
allergen-free transgenic peanut seed is produced by recombinant methods. Peanut plants are transformed with multiple copies of each of the 
allergen genes, or fragments thereof, to suppress 
gene expression and 
allergen protein production. Alternatively, peanut plants are transformed with peanut allergen antisense genes introduced into the peanut 
genome as antisense fragments, sense fragments, or combinations of both antisense and sense fragments. Peanut transgenes are under the control of the 35S 
promoter, or the 
promoter of the Ara h2 
gene to produce antisense RNAs, sense RNAs, and double-stranded RNAs for suppressing allergen 
protein production in peanut plants. A full length 
genomic clone for allergen Ara h2 is isolated and sequenced. The ORF is 622 nucleotides long. The predicted encoded 
protein is 207 amino acids long and includes a putative 
transit peptide of 21 residues. One polyadenilation 
signal is identified at position 951. Six additional stop codons are observed. A 
promoter region was revealed containing a putative 
TATA box located at position −72. Homologous regions were identified between Ara h2, h6, and h7, and between Ara h3 and h4, and between Ara h1P41B and Ara h1P17. The homologous regions will be used for the screening of peanut 
genomic library to isolate all peanut allergen genes and for down-regulation and silencing of multiple peanut allergen genes.