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The Hungarian poppy research has been supported since 2000 by the Hungarian Research Fund (OTKA, No. T32393 and K62732).

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Bernáth, J., Németh, É. (2009). Poppy. In: Vollmann, J., Rajcan, I. (eds) Oil Crops. Handbook of Plant Breeding, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77594-4_15

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