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Acknowledgments

This review chapter was supported by grants from the CGIAR Research Program MAIZE (to J.L.A., S.C.K., J.E.C. and M.Z-A.), the Spanish project AGL2016-76527-R (to J.L.A. and S.C.K.), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID funded Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa project (J.E.C., M.Z.A., M.S.O) and the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform (J.E.C. M.Z.A, and M.S.O.).

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    Mainassara Zaman-Allah & Jill E. Cairns

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Araus, J.L., Kefauver, S.C., Zaman-Allah, M., Olsen, M.S., Cairns, J.E. (2019). Phenotyping: New Crop Breeding Frontier. In: Savin, R., Slafer, G. (eds) Crop Science. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8621-7_1036

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