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Biochemistry and physiology

Section edited by Paul Boss (CSIRO, Australia)

This section considers studies in the biochemistry and physiology of plants including research into photosynthesis and related processes.

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  1. The optimized illumination of plants using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is beneficial to their photosynthetic performance, and in recent years, LEDs have been widely used in horticultural facilities. However, ...

    Authors: Song Gao, Xuena Liu, Ying Liu, Bili Cao, Zijing Chen and Kun Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:78

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  2. The major fleshy tissues of the apple fruit are spatially separable into cortex and pith. These tissues display differential growth during development. Key features of such differential growth, and sink metabo...

    Authors: Shan Jing and Anish Malladi

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:75

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  4. Wheat grain avenin-like proteins (ALPs) belong to a recently discovered class of wheat grain storage protein. ALPs in wheat grains not only have beneficial effects on dough quality but also display antifungal ...

    Authors: Yujuan Zhang, Xin Hu, Angela Juhasz, Shahidul Islam, Zitong Yu, Yun Zhao, Gang Li, Wenli Ding and Wujun Ma

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:45

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  5. Plants have been used as an important source of indispensable bioactive compounds in various cosmetics, foods, and medicines. However, the subsequent functional annotation of these compounds seems arduous beca...

    Authors: Sunmin Lee, Dong-Gu Oh, Digar Singh, Jong Seok Lee, Sarah Lee and Choong Hwan Lee

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:39

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  7. The receptor-like kinase FEROINA (FER) plays a crucial role in controlling plant vegetative growth partially by sensing the rapid alkalinization factor (RALF) peptide. However, the role of RALF1-FER in the veg...

    Authors: Long Wang, Tao Yang, Qinlu Lin, Bingqian Wang, Xu Li, Sheng Luan and Feng Yu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:26

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  8. It is now well documented that moonlight affects the life cycle of invertebrates, birds, reptiles, and mammals. The lunisolar tide is also well-known to alter plant growth and development. However, although pl...

    Authors: J-C. Breitler, D. Djerrab, S. Leran, L. Toniutti, C. Guittin, D. Severac, M. Pratlong, A. Dereeper, H. Etienne and B. Bertrand

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:24

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  9. Alfalfa is a high-quality forage cultivated widely in northern China. Recently, the failure of alfalfa plants to survive the winter has caused substantial economic losses. Water management has attracted consid...

    Authors: Hongyu Xu, Zhenyi Li, Zongyong Tong, Feng He and Xianglin Li

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:15

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  10. Previous reports have mainly focused on the volatiles in citrus fruits, and there have been few reports about the volatiles in citrus leaves and flowers. However, citrus leaves and flowers are also rich in vol...

    Authors: Haipeng Zhang, Mengjun Chen, Huan Wen, Zhenhua Wang, Jiajing Chen, Liu Fang, Hongyan Zhang, Zongzhou Xie, Dong Jiang, Yunjiang Cheng and Juan Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2020 20:7

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  11. Citrus fruits are consumed freshly or as juice to directly provide various dietary flavonoids to humans. Diverse metabolites are present among Citrus genera, and many flavonoids biosynthetic genes were induced...

    Authors: Muhammad Junaid Rao, Yuantao Xu, Yue Huang, Xiaomei Tang, Xiuxin Deng and Qiang Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:603

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  12. Grafting with rootstocks is essential for the culture of many perennial fruit crops and is increasing being used in the production of annual fruits and vegetables. Our previous work based on microarrays showed...

    Authors: Duyên Prodhomme, Josep Valls Fonayet, Cyril Hévin, Céline Franc, Ghislaine Hilbert, Gilles de Revel, Tristan Richard, Nathalie Ollat and Sarah Jane Cookson

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:599

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  13. Sucrose (Suc), as the precursor molecule for rubber biosynthesis in Hevea brasiliensis, is transported via phloem-mediated long-distance transport from leaves to laticifers in trunk bark, where latex (cytoplasm o...

    Authors: Xiangyu Long, Heping Li, Jianghua Yang, Lusheng Xin, Yongjun Fang, Bin He, Debao Huang and Chaorong Tang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:591

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  14. Polygalacturonase (PG), as an important hydrolase participating in the degradation of pectin, plays an important role in softening process of fruit. However, information on PG gene family in pear genome and the s...

    Authors: Suling Zhang, Min Ma, Huping Zhang, Shaoling Zhang, Ming Qian, Zhen Zhang, Weiqi Luo, Jinbu Fan, Zhiqiang Liu and Libin Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:587

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  15. Chimeras synthesized artificially by grafting are crucial to the breeding of perennial woody plants. ‘Hongrou Huyou’ (Citrus changshan-huyou + Citrus unshiu) is a new graft chimera originating from the junction w...

    Authors: Min Zhang, Luyang Jing, Qun Wu, Kaijie Zhu, Fuzhi Ke, Jianguo Xu, Siqing Zhao, Gang Wang and Chi Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:582

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  16. Seed dormancy is a prevailing condition in which seeds are unable to germinate, even under favorable environmental conditions. Harvested Brassica oleracea (Chinese cabbage) seeds are dormant and normally germinat...

    Authors: Abdul Sami, Muhammad Waheed Riaz, Xiangyu Zhou, Zonghe Zhu and Kejin Zhou

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:577

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  17. Croton draco is an arboreal species and its latex as well as some other parts of the plant, are traditionally used in the treatment of a wide range of ailments and diseases. Alkaloids, such as magnoflorine, preve...

    Authors: Anahí Canedo-Téxon, Feliza Ramón-Farias, Juan Luis Monribot-Villanueva, Emanuel Villafán, Alexandro Alonso-Sánchez, Claudia Anahí Pérez-Torres, Guillermo Ángeles, José Antonio Guerrero-Analco and Enrique Ibarra-Laclette

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:560

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  18. The element selenium (Se) deficiency is thought to be a global human health problem, which could disperse by daily-supplement from Se-rich food. Increasing the accumulation of Se in rice grain is an approach m...

    Authors: Yuanke Liang, Yang Su, Ling Li, Xin Huang, Faiz Hussain Panhwar, Tengda Zheng, Zhichen Tang, Hla Hla Ei, Muhammad Umer Farooq, Rui Zeng, Yujie Zhang, Xiaoying Ye, Xiaomei Jia, Lanlan Zheng and Jianqing Zhu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:559

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  19. Grazing is an important land use in northern China. In general, different grazing intensities had a different impact on the morphological and physiological traits of plants, and especially their photosynthetic...

    Authors: Min Liu, Jirui Gong, Bo Yang, Yong Ding, Zihe Zhang, Biao Wang, Chenchen Zhu and Xiangyang Hou

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:558

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  20. The leaf age for harvesting flue-cured tobacco leaves is closely related to the quality of tobacco leaves, so an appropriate leaf age for harvesting is important for improving yield and quality of flue-cured t...

    Authors: Yanjie Chen, Ke Ren, Xian He, Jiangshiqi Gong, Xiaodong Hu, Jiaen Su, Yan Jin, Zhengxiong Zhao, Yanmei Zhu and Congming Zou

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:555

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  21. Understanding lignin biosynthesis and composition is of central importance for sustainable bioenergy and biomaterials production. Species of the genus Miscanthus have emerged as promising bioenergy crop due to th...

    Authors: Feng He, Katja Machemer-Noonan, Philippe Golfier, Faride Unda, Johanna Dechert, Wan Zhang, Natalie Hoffmann, Lacey Samuels, Shawn D. Mansfield, Thomas Rausch and Sebastian Wolf

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:552

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  23. Trees of the genus Taxus are highly valuable medicinal plants with multiple pharmacological effects on various cancer treatments. Paclitaxel from Taxus trees is an efficient and widely used anticancer drug, howev...

    Authors: Ting Zhou, Xiujun Luo, Chengchao Zhang, Xinyun Xu, Chunna Yu, Zhifang Jiang, Lei Zhang, Huwei Yuan, Bingsong Zheng, Erxu Pi and Chenjia Shen

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:529

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  24. Abscisic acid (ABA) and sucrose act as molecular signals in response to abiotic stress. However, how their synergy regulates the source-sink relationship has rarely been studied. This study aimed to reveal the...

    Authors: Tingting Chen, Guangyan Li, Mohammad Rezaul Islam, Weimeng Fu, Baohua Feng, Longxing Tao and Guanfu Fu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:525

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  25. Dendrobium moniliforme (Linnaeus) Swartz is a well-known plant used in traditional Chinese medicine due to bioactive constituents. Polysaccharides are the main medicinal ingredients, yet no studies have been publ...

    Authors: Yingdan Yuan, Jinchi Zhang, Justin Kallman, Xin Liu, Miaojing Meng and Jie Lin

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:521

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  26. Thaxtomin A (TA) is a natural cellulose biosynthesis inhibitor (CBI) synthesized by the potato common scab-causing pathogen Streptomyces scabies. Inhibition of cellulose synthesis by TA compromises cell wall orga...

    Authors: Fatima Awwad, Guillaume Bertrand, Michel Grandbois and Nathalie Beaudoin

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:512

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  27. Carbohydrate partitioning and utilization is a key determinant of growth rate and of yield in plants and crops. There are few studies on crops in field conditions. In Arabidopsis, starch accumulation in leaves is...

    Authors: Xiao-Gui Liang, Zhen Gao, Li Zhang, Si Shen, Xue Zhao, Yun-Peng Liu, Li-Li Zhou, Matthew J. Paul and Shun-Li Zhou

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:508

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  28. Selenium (Se) is a beneficial element for higher plants and essential for mammals. To study the effect of the foliar application of sodium selenate on fragrant rice performance, a pot experiment was conducted ...

    Authors: Haowen Luo, Bin Du, Longxin He, Axiang Zheng, Shenggang Pan and Xiangru Tang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:502

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  29. The basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors (TFs), as one of the largest families of TFs, play important roles in the regulation of many secondary metabolites including flavonoids. Their involvemen...

    Authors: Yu Zhao, Yu-Ying Zhang, Hui Liu, Xiao-Shuang Zhang, Rong Ni, Piao-Yi Wang, Shuai Gao, Hong-Xiang Lou and Ai-Xia Cheng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:497

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  30. Anthocyanins are the primary source of colour in flowers and also accumulate in vegetative tissues, where they have multiple protective roles traditionally attributed to early compounds of the metabolic pathwa...

    Authors: José Carlos Del Valle, Cristina Alcalde-Eon, Mª. Teresa Escribano-Bailón, Mª. Luisa Buide, Justen B. Whittall and Eduardo Narbona

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:496

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  31. Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) is an underutilised crop with high tolerance to drought and flooding stress and potential for maintaining food and nutritional security in the face of climate change. The presence of ...

    Authors: Peter M. F. Emmrich, Martin Rejzek, Lionel Hill, Paul Brett, Anne Edwards, Abhimanyu Sarkar, Rob A. Field, Cathie Martin and Trevor L. Wang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:489

    Content type: Methodology article

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  32. Indigo alkaloids, such as indigo, indirubin and its derivatives, have been identified as effective antiviral compounds in Baphicacanthus cusia. Evidence suggests that the biosynthesis of indigo alkaloids in plant...

    Authors: Jian Yu, Yihan Zhang, Shuju Ning, Qi Ye, Hexin Tan, Ruibing Chen, Qitao Bu, Rui Zhang, Peimin Gong, Xiaoli Ma, Lei Zhang and Daozhi Wei

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:485

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  33. Starch is the main storage substance in rice caryopsis and its properties will determine the quality of rice. Super rice has been extensively studied due to its high-yield characteristics, but the knowledge of...

    Authors: Xinyu Chen, Mingxin Chen, Guoqiang Lin, Yang Yang, Xurun Yu, Yunfei Wu and Fei Xiong

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:482

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  34. The outer peels of pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) possess two groups of polyphenols that have health beneficial properties: anthocyanins (ATs, which also affect peel color); and hydrolysable tannins (HTs). Thei...

    Authors: Rida Habashi, Yael Hacham, Rohit Dhakarey, Ifat Matityahu, Doron Holland, Li Tian and Rachel Amir

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:476

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  35. Chinese hickory (Carya cathayensis) is a popular nut plant having high economic value. Grafting is applied to accelerate the transition from vegetative phase to reproductive phase. Lysine succinylation occurs fre...

    Authors: Huwei Yuan, Juanjuan Chen, Ying Yang, Chenjia Shen, Dongbin Xu, Junfeng Wang, Daoliang Yan, Yi He and Bingsong Zheng

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:467

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  36. Fruit coloration is one of the main quality parameters of Citrus fruit primarily determined by genetic factors. The fruit of ordinary sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) displays a pleasant orange tint due to accumula...

    Authors: María J. Rodrigo, Joanna Lado, Enriqueta Alós, Berta Alquézar, Orly Dery, Joseph Hirschberg and Lorenzo Zacarías

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:465

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  37. Apple is one of the most popular fruit crops world-wide and its skin color is an important quality consideration essential for commercial value. However, the strategy on genetic breeding for red skin apple and...

    Authors: Mo-Xian Chen, Chao Sun, Kai-Lu Zhang, Yu-Chen Song, Yuan Tian, Xi Chen, Ying-Gao Liu, Neng-Hui Ye, Jianhua Zhang, Shenchun Qu and Fu-Yuan Zhu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:445

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  38. Olive (Olea europaea L.) is an emblematic oil tree crop in the Mediterranean basin. Currently, despite olive features as a moderately thermophilic species, its cultivation is worldwide spreading due to the health...

    Authors: Leonardo Bruno, Ernesto Picardi, Marianna Pacenza, Adriana Chiappetta, Antonella Muto, Olimpia Gagliardi, Innocenzo Muzzalupo, Graziano Pesole and Maria Beatrice Bitonti

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:428

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  39. Nitrogen (N) nutrition significantly affected metabolism and accumulation of quality-related compounds in tea plant (Camellia sinensis L.). Little is known about the physiological and molecular mechanisms underly...

    Authors: Mei-Ya Liu, Dandan Tang, Yuanzhi Shi, Lifeng Ma, Yan Li, Qunfeng Zhang and Jianyun Ruan

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:425

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  40. Pink-flowered strawberry is a promising new ornamental flower derived from intergeneric hybridization (Fragaria × Potentilla) with bright color, a prolonged flowering period and edible fruits. Its flower color ra...

    Authors: Li Xue, Jian Wang, Jun Zhao, Yang Zheng, Hai-Feng Wang, Xue Wu, Cheng Xian, Jia-Jun Lei, Chuan-Fei Zhong and Yun-Tao Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:423

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  41. Precise regulation of gene expression is indispensable for the proper functioning of organisms in both optimal and challenging conditions. The most commonly known regulative mechanisms include the modulation o...

    Authors: Jagna Chmielowska-Bąk, Magdalena Arasimowicz-Jelonek and Joanna Deckert

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:421

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  42. Melatonin is a pleiotropic signaling molecule that plays multifarious roles in plants stress tolerance. The polyamine (PAs) metabolic pathway has been suggested to eliminate the effects of environmental stress...

    Authors: Mohammad Shah Jahan, Sheng Shu, Yu Wang, Zheng Chen, Mingming He, Meiqi Tao, Jin Sun and Shirong Guo

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:414

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  43. Small RNAs regulate a wide variety of processes in plants, from organ development to both biotic and abiotic stress response. Being master regulators in genetic networks, their biogenesis and action is a funda...

    Authors: Agustín Sabbione, Lucas Daurelio, Abelardo Vegetti, Manuel Talón, Francisco Tadeo and Marcela Dotto

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:401

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  44. It is critical to study the low nitrogen tolerance in wild soybean with extensive genetic diversity for improving cultivated soybean nitrogen use efficiency. Focusing on plant young and old leaves could provid...

    Authors: Yuan Liu, Mingxia Li, Jingshu Xu, Xueying Liu, Shiyao Wang and Lianxuan Shi

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:389

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  45. Plant immune responses can be induced by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs), but the exact compounds that induce resistance are poorly understood. Here, we identified the novel natural elicitor 3,4-d...

    Authors: Niu Liu, Xiao Luo, Yongqing Tian, Duo Lai, Longlai Zhang, Fei Lin and Hanhong Xu

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:384

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  46. As a traditional Chinese herb, safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is valued for its florets to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Basing on previous chemical analysis, the main active compounds...

    Authors: Dandan Guo, Yue Gao, Fei Liu, Beixuan He, Xinlei Jia, Fanwang Meng, Hai Zhang and Meili Guo

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:376

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  47. Poly (ADP-ribosyl) ation (PARylation) is an important posttranslational modification that regulates DNA repair, gene transcription, stress responses and developmental processes in multicellular organisms. Poly...

    Authors: Zongying Gu, Weiyang Pan, Wei Chen, Qichao Lian, Qiao Wu, Zeyu Lv, Xuan Cheng and Xiaochun Ge

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:364

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  48. Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is an edible cereal crop whose sprouts have been marketed and commercialized for their higher levels of anti-oxidants, including rutin and anthocyanin. UDP-glucose flavonoi...

    Authors: Panfeng Yao, Renyu Deng, Yunji Huang, Simon Stael, Jiaqi Shi, Guanlan Shi, Bingbing Lv, Qi Li, Qixin Dong, Qi Wu, Chenglei Li, Hui Chen and Haixia Zhao

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:339

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  49. HKT channels mediate sodium uniport or sodium and potassium symport in plants. Monocotyledons express a higher number of HKT proteins than dicotyledons, and it is only within this clade of HKT channels that ca...

    Authors: Janin Riedelsberger, Ariela Vergara-Jaque, Miguel Piñeros, Ingo Dreyer and Wendy González

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:316

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  50. Abaxially anthocyanic leaves of deeply-shaded understorey plants play important ecological significance for the environmental adaption. In contrast to the transient pigmentation in other plants, anthocyanins a...

    Authors: Honghui Luo, Wenjun Li, Xin Zhang, Shuangfan Deng, Qiuchan Xu, Ting Hou, Xuequn Pang, Zhaoqi Zhang and Xuelian Zhang

    Citation: BMC Plant Biology 2019 19:315

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