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Acknowledgments

We wish to sincerely thank the following, for providing information related to safflower breeding at their respective institutes and/or countries: M. Sujatha (DOR, Hyderabad, India), Nandini Nimbkar (NARI, Phaltan, India) and R.C. Johnson (USDA-ARS, Pullman, Washington, USA).

The following are thanked, for providing information on Carthamus genetic resources held in their respective institutes: A. Diederichsen (PGRC-AAFC, Saskatoon, Canada), H. Knüpffer (Genebank-IPK, Gatersleben, Germany).

And we also wish to thank Rick Keon (SemBioSys, Calgary, Canada) for providing us information/updates on safflower biotechnology related to breeding.

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Mündel, H.H., Bergman, J.W. (2009). Safflower. 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_14

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