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Maize for Oil

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The author would like to dedicate this chapter to John W. Dudley and Robert J. Lambert for their perseverance and commitment to seeing the Illinois High-Oil/Low-Oil long-term selection experiment through 100 generations of selection.

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Lee, E.A. (2009). Maize for Oil. 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_17

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