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  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,297 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2024

Chromosome elimination resulting in haploids is achieved by rapid loss of chromosomes from one parent during the zygote stage and is an important procedure to produce doubled haploid (DH) lines in plants. During crosses between an emasculated wheat (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
781 Views
16 Pages

Testcross Analysis of Pl-1 Marker Expression and Seedling Vigor in Thai Maize Germplasm for Doubled Haploid Breeding Applications

  • Arnat Thawarorit,
  • Thomas Lübberstedt,
  • Abil Dermail,
  • Prakasit Duangpapeng,
  • Vinitchan Ruanjaichon,
  • Sompong Chankaew and
  • Khundej Suriharn

29 September 2025

Doubled haploid (DH) technology accelerates maize breeding by generating completely homozygous lines within two generations, but its efficiency depends on reliable haploid identification markers. The Purple plant 1 (Pl-1) root pigmentation marker has...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,177 Views
20 Pages

6 November 2023

Oats (Avena sativa) hold immense economic and nutritional value as a versatile crop. They have long been recognized as an exceptional choice for human consumption and animal feed. Oats’ unique components, including proteins, starches, and &beta...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,815 Views
21 Pages

The Recent Development in Technologies for Attaining Doubled Haploid Plants In Vivo

  • Meisam Zargar,
  • Tatiana Zavarykina,
  • Sergey Voronov,
  • Irina Pronina and
  • Maryam Bayat

2 October 2022

Haploid plants with a doubled set of chromosomes (doubled haploid (DH)) significantly speed up the selection process by the fixation of genetic traits in each locus in the homozygous state within one generation. Doubled haploids are mainly attained b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,776 Views
15 Pages

Isolated microspore culture in vitro (IMC) is an advanced technique for producing doubled haploids. We developed a modified microspore isolation method for the Brassicaceae family, which exceeds the results obtained by a standard microspore isolation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,806 Views
13 Pages

23 June 2023

Doubled haploid (DH) technology is a tool used to develop large numbers of inbred lines and increase the rate of genetic gain by shortening the breeding cycles. However, previous attempts to produce DH sunflower plants (Helianthus spp.) have resulted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,923 Views
16 Pages

Improvement of Anther Culture to integrate Doubled Haploid Technology in Temperate Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Breeding

  • Csaba Lantos,
  • Mihály Jancsó,
  • Árpád Székely,
  • Éva Nagy,
  • Tímea Szalóki and
  • János Pauk

9 December 2022

Doubled haploid (DH) plant production, such as anther culture (AC), is an effective tool used in modern rice breeding programs. The improved efficient protocols applied can shorten the process of breeding. The effect of combinations of plant growth r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,630 Views
32 Pages

Spontaneous and Chemically Induced Genome Doubling and Polyploidization in Vegetable Crops

  • Maria Fomicheva,
  • Yuri Kulakov,
  • Ksenia Alyokhina and
  • Elena Domblides

Plant ploidy manipulation is often required for breeding purposes. However, there is no comprehensive review covering genome doubling in vegetable crops despite the abundance of data for a large number of vegetable species. Similar to other species,...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,975 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2020

Doubled haploids have played a major role in cucurbit breeding for the past four decades. In situ parthenogenesis via irradiated pollen is the preferred technique to obtain haploid plantlets whose chromosomes are then doubled in Cucurbitaceae, such a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,537 Views
10 Pages

Development of Specific Molecular and Phenotypic Marker-Based Haploid Inducers in Rice

  • Jian Wang,
  • Huijing Yan,
  • Xiaozhen Jiao,
  • Jun Ren,
  • Fengyue Hu,
  • Huan Liang,
  • Weihong Liang and
  • Chaolei Liu

31 May 2023

Doubled haploid (DH) technology is an efficient strategy for producing completely homozygous lines for breeding programs. Mutations in the MATRILINEAL (MTL) phospholipase trigger intraspecific haploid induction in cereals. Although an in vivo haploid...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,511 Views
12 Pages

Impact of Spontaneous Haploid Genome Doubling in Maize Breeding

  • Nicholas A. Boerman,
  • Ursula K. Frei and
  • Thomas Lübberstedt

17 March 2020

Doubled haploid (DH) technology has changed the maize-breeding landscape in recent years. Traditionally, DH production requires the use of chemical doubling agents to induce haploid genome doubling and, subsequently, male fertility. These chemicals c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
355 Views
15 Pages

A Review of Research Progress in Rice Anther Culture

  • Zhizun Feng,
  • Huangwei Chu,
  • Liming Cao,
  • Ruiyun Wang and
  • Anpeng Zhang

Conventional rice breeding predominantly relies on hybridization techniques, with hybrid progenies typically requiring 8 to 10 generations of selfing to achieve genetically stable homozygous lines. In contrast, haploid breeding enables the derivation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,890 Views
16 Pages

20 January 2023

The aim of any breeding process is to fully express the targeted, superior/desirable parent characteristic in the progeny. Hybrids are often used in this dynamic, and complex process for which homozygous parents—which may require up to eight ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,825 Views
11 Pages

Development of In Vivo Haploid Inducer Lines for Screening Haploid Immature Embryos in Maize

  • Chen Chen,
  • Zijian Xiao,
  • Junwen Zhang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Jinlong Li,
  • Chenxu Liu and
  • Shaojiang Chen

12 June 2020

Doubled haploid technology is widely applied in maize. The haploid inducer lines play critical roles in doubled haploid breeding. We report the development of specialized haploid inducer lines that enhance the purple pigmentation of crossing immature...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,493 Views
17 Pages

Haploid Production in Cannabis sativa: Recent Updates, Prospects, and Perspectives

  • S.M. Ahsan,
  • Md. Injamum-Ul-Hoque,
  • Nayan Chandra Howlader,
  • Md. Mezanur Rahman,
  • Md Mahfuzur Rahman,
  • Md Azizul Haque and
  • Hyong Woo Choi

15 June 2025

Cannabis sativa L. is a dioecious species known to produce over 1600 chemical constituents, including more than 180 cannabinoids classified into 11 structural groups. These bioactive compounds are predominantly synthesised in the glandular trichomes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,443 Views
24 Pages

Paclitaxel and Caffeine–Taurine, New Colchicine Alternatives for Chromosomes Doubling in Maize Haploid Breeding

  • Saeed Arshad,
  • Mengli Wei,
  • Qurban Ali,
  • Ghulam Mustafa,
  • Zhengqiang Ma and
  • Yuanxin Yan

28 September 2023

The doubled haploid (DH) technology is employed worldwide in various crop-breeding programs, especially maize. Still, restoring tassel fertility is measured as one of the major restrictive factors in producing DH lines. Colchicine, nitrous oxide, ory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,916 Views
14 Pages

Effectiveness of R1-nj Anthocyanin Marker in the Identification of In Vivo Induced Maize Haploid Embryos

  • Luis Antonio Lopez,
  • John Ochieng,
  • Mario Pacheco,
  • Leocadio Martinez,
  • Hamilton Amoshe Omar,
  • Manje Gowda,
  • Boddupalli M. Prasanna,
  • Kanwarpal S. Dhugga and
  • Vijay Chaikam

14 June 2023

Doubled haploid (DH) technology has become integral to maize breeding programs to expedite inbred line development and increase the efficiency of breeding operations. Unlike many other plant species that use in vitro methods, DH production in maize u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,286 Views
9 Pages

Development of Multiple-Heading-Date mtl Haploid Inducer Lines in Rice

  • Jian Wang,
  • Yuexuan Cao,
  • Kejian Wang and
  • Chaolei Liu

In vivo doubled haploid (DH) production based on crossing heterozygous germplasm with mtl haploid inducer lines promises to transform modern rice (Oryza sativa) breeding. However, this technology is limited, as haploid inducers and pollen acceptors h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,454 Views
33 Pages

Doubled haploid technology is, so far, the fastest route to induce a true homozygous state in plants. True homozygous plants are particularly important for breeders, as they can facilitate hybrid breeding and are useful in fixing traits in a breeding...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,884 Views
18 Pages

30 August 2023

Haploid plants are of significant interest to crop breeders due to their ability to expedite the development of inbred lines. Chromosome-doubling of haploids, produced by either in vitro or in vivo methods, results in fully homozygous doubled haploid...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,890 Views
28 Pages

The Production of Helianthus Haploids: A Review of Its Current Status and Future Prospects

  • Andrey O. Blinkov,
  • Nataliya V. Varlamova,
  • Ludmila V. Kurenina and
  • Marat R. Khaliluev

29 October 2022

The genus Helianthus comprises 52 species and 19 subspecies, with the cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) representing one of the most important oilseed crops in the world, which is also of value for fodder and technical purposes. Currently,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,602 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2021

Emerging threats of climate change require the rapid development of improved varieties with a higher tolerance to abiotic and biotic factors. Despite the success of traditional agricultural practices, novel techniques for precise manipulation of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,294 Views
12 Pages

QTL Mapping and Prediction of Haploid Male Fertility Traits in Maize (Zea mays L.)

  • Yanyan Jiao,
  • Jinlong Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Mengran Li,
  • Wenxin Liu,
  • Chenxu Liu and
  • Shaojiang Chen

3 July 2020

Chromosome doubling of maize haploids is a bottleneck in the large-scale application of doubled haploid (DH) technology. Spontaneous chromosome doubling (SCD) of haploid has been taken as an important method in the production of DH lines and low hapl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,630 Views
25 Pages

26 February 2023

The induction of haploid cell development into normal plants enables the production of doubled haploid lines, which are homozygous and can be used in breeding programs as an alternative to conventionally derived inbred lines. In this paper, we presen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,089 Views
13 Pages

MYO, a Candidate Gene for Haploid Induction in Maize Causes Male Sterility

  • Kimberly Vanous,
  • Thomas Lübberstedt,
  • Rania Ibrahim and
  • Ursula K. Frei

19 June 2020

Doubled haploid technology is highly successful in maize breeding programs and is contingent on the ability of maize inducers to efficiently produce haploids. Knowledge of the genes involved in haploid induction is important for not only developing b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,209 Views
10 Pages

Doubled haploid (DH) technology based on in vivo haploid induction has gradually become the key technology in modern maize breeding. The ability of maternal germplasm to be induced into haploids, inducibility, varies among genotypes. To dissect the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,787 Views
17 Pages

Multi-Trait Genomic Prediction Improves Accuracy of Selection among Doubled Haploid Lines in Maize

  • Haixiao Hu,
  • Yujie Meng,
  • Wenxin Liu,
  • Shaojiang Chen and
  • Daniel E. Runcie

22 November 2022

Recent advances in maize doubled haploid (DH) technology have enabled the development of large numbers of DH lines quickly and efficiently. However, testing all possible hybrid crosses among DH lines is a challenge. Phenotyping haploid progenitors cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,962 Views
19 Pages

A Deep Learning-Based System (Microscan) for the Identification of Pollen Development Stages and Its Application to Obtaining Doubled Haploid Lines in Eggplant

  • Edgar García-Fortea,
  • Ana García-Pérez,
  • Esther Gimeno-Páez,
  • Alfredo Sánchez-Gimeno,
  • Santiago Vilanova,
  • Jaime Prohens and
  • David Pastor-Calle

5 September 2020

The development of double haploids (DHs) is a straightforward path for obtaining pure lines but has multiple bottlenecks. Among them is the determination of the optimal stage of pollen induction for androgenesis. In this work, we developed Microscan,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,683 Views
20 Pages

Brassica napus Haploid and Double Haploid Production and Its Latest Applications

  • Ewa Starosta,
  • Justyna Szwarc,
  • Janetta Niemann,
  • Katarzyna Szewczyk and
  • Dorota Weigt

Rapeseed is one of the most important oil crops in the world. Increasing demand for oil and limited agronomic capabilities of present-day rapeseed result in the need for rapid development of new, superior cultivars. Double haploid (DH) technology is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,349 Views
18 Pages

Selection Gain of Maize Haploid Inducers for the Tropical Savanna Environments

  • Abil Dermail,
  • Sompong Chankaew,
  • Kamol Lertrat,
  • Thomas Lübberstedt and
  • Khundej Suriharn

19 December 2021

Lacking elite haploid inducers performing high haploid induction rate (HIR) and agronomic performance is one of fundamental factors hindering the rapid adoption of doubled haploid technology in maize hybrid breeding, especially under tropical savanna...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,152 Views
13 Pages

Minichromosomes: Vectors for Crop Improvement

  • Jon P. Cody,
  • Nathan C. Swyers,
  • Morgan E. McCaw,
  • Nathaniel D. Graham,
  • Changzeng Zhao and
  • James A. Birchler

6 July 2015

Minichromosome technology has the potential to offer a number of possibilities for expanding current biofortification strategies. While conventional genome manipulations rely on random integration of one or a few genes, engineered minichromosomes wou...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,014 Views
15 Pages

Analysis of Structure Variations and Expression Characteristics of DMP8 and DMP9 Genes in Brassicaceae

  • Tingting Zhang,
  • Jianli Liang,
  • Xu Cai,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Jian Wu and
  • Xiaowu Wang

Doubled haploid (DH) technology based on in vivo haploid induction (HI), which is used to obtain true-breeding lines within a single generation, is a technique that significantly increases modern crop-breeding efficiency. Recently, dicot Arabidopsis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,341 Views
8 Pages

QTL Mapping for Haploid Inducibility Using Genotyping by Sequencing in Maize

  • Benjamin Trampe,
  • Grigorii Batîru,
  • Arthur Pereira da Silva,
  • Ursula Karoline Frei and
  • Thomas Lübberstedt

25 March 2022

Doubled haploid (DH) technology in maize takes advantage of in vivo haploid induction (HI) triggered by pollination of donors of interest with inducer genotypes. However, the ability of different donors to be induced—inducibility (IND), varies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,156 Views
18 Pages

Efficient Methods for Evaluation on Ploidy Level of Cucurbita pepo L. Regenerant Plants Obtained in Unpollinated Ovule Culture In Vitro

  • Elena Domblides,
  • Alexey Ermolaev,
  • Sergey Belov,
  • Lyudmila Kan,
  • Mikhail Skaptsov and
  • Arthur Domblides

An important stage in doubled haploid (DH) production is to evaluate and to differentiate the ploidy level of regenerant plants at least two–three times during the technology. Therefore, rapid and reliable methods are necessary for particular s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,154 Views
16 Pages

Doubled Haploids in Eggplant

  • Ricardo Mir,
  • Antonio Calabuig-Serna and
  • Jose M. Seguí-Simarro

20 July 2021

Eggplant is a solanaceous crop cultivated worldwide for its edible fruit. Eggplant breeding programs are mainly aimed to the generation of F1 hybrids by crossing two highly homozygous, pure lines, which are traditionally obtained upon several self cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,773 Views
16 Pages

Improved Anther Culture Media for Enhanced Callus Formation and Plant Regeneration in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

  • Jauhar Ali,
  • Katrina Leslie C. Nicolas,
  • Shahana Akther,
  • Azerkhsh Torabi,
  • Ali Akbar Ebadi,
  • Corinne M. Marfori-Nazarea and
  • Anumalla Mahender

22 April 2021

Anther culture technique is the most viable and efficient method of producing homozygous doubled haploid plants within a short period. However, the practical application of this technology in rice improvement is still limited by various factors that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,126 Views
10 Pages

Investigating the Effect of the Interaction of Maize Inducer and Donor Backgrounds on Haploid Induction Rates

  • Henrique Uliana Trentin,
  • Grigorii Batîru,
  • Ursula Karoline Frei,
  • Somak Dutta and
  • Thomas Lübberstedt

7 June 2022

Doubled haploid technology is a feasible, fast, and cost-efficient way of producing completely homozygous lines in maize. Many factors contribute to the success of this system including the haploid induction rate (HIR) of inducer lines, the inducibil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,334 Views
11 Pages

Generic Workflow of a Highly Effective and Easy Anther Culture Method for Both Japonica and Indica Rice

  • Guimei Guo,
  • Shisen Liu,
  • Shuwei Zhang,
  • Linian Yang,
  • Yingjie Zong,
  • Nigel G. Halford,
  • Ting He,
  • Runhong Gao,
  • Zhenzhu Guo and
  • Zhiwei Chen
  • + 3 authors

9 September 2024

As one of the most important staple crops in the world, rice plays a pivotal role in world food security. The creation of doubled haploids based on anther culture is an important technology for rice breeding. However, at present, rice anther culture...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,035 Views
13 Pages

CRISPR/Cas Technology Revolutionizes Crop Breeding

  • Qiaoling Tang,
  • Xujing Wang,
  • Xi Jin,
  • Jun Peng,
  • Haiwen Zhang and
  • Youhua Wang

30 August 2023

Crop breeding is an important global strategy to meet sustainable food demand. CRISPR/Cas is a most promising gene-editing technology for rapid and precise generation of novel germplasm and promoting the development of a series of new breeding techni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,745 Views
23 Pages

25 November 2023

Barley is the most salt-tolerant cereal crop. However, little attention has been paid to the salt-tolerant doubled haploids of barley derived from mutagenesis combined with isolated microspore culture. In the present study, barley doubled haploid (DH...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,517 Views
17 Pages

Early Development of Direct Embryos in the Cultured Anthers of Manihot esculenta Crantz

  • Lakmali Dissanayake,
  • Prasanthi Perera,
  • Thilak Attanayaka,
  • Erwin Heberle and
  • Manosha Jayawardhana

6 October 2020

Cassava is one of the most important sources of energy. To meet the growing demand, genetic improvement is of utmost importance. Its cross-pollinating nature limits the opportunity of exploitation of hybrid vigor and demands the development of homozy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,885 Views
21 Pages

Optimizing Different Medium Component Concentration and Temperature Stress Pretreatment for Gynogenesis Induction in Unpollinated Ovule Culture of Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

  • Tatyina Zayachkovskaya,
  • Ksenia Alyokhina,
  • Anna Mineykina,
  • Olga Romanova,
  • Tatiana Vjurtts,
  • Yana Tukuser,
  • Vladimir Zayachkovsky,
  • Alexey Ermolaev,
  • Lyudmila Kan and
  • Elena Domblides
  • + 1 author

The great economic importance of sugar beet determines the ongoing biotechnological studies conducted worldwide to improve the technology of obtaining doubled haploids (DHs) using the method of unpollinated ovule culture in vitro. To improve the indu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,461 Views
17 Pages

New Epigenetic Modifier Inhibitors Enhance Microspore Embryogenesis in Bread Wheat

  • Isabel Valero-Rubira,
  • María Pilar Vallés,
  • Begoña Echávarri,
  • Patricia Fustero,
  • María Asunción Costar and
  • Ana María Castillo

8 March 2024

The use of doubled haploid (DH) technology enables the development of new varieties of plants in less time than traditional breeding methods. In microspore embryogenesis (ME), stress treatment triggers microspores towards an embryogenic pathway, resu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,679 Views
18 Pages

Rapid Generation and Analysis of a Barley Doubled Haploid Line with Higher Nitrogen Use Efficiency Than Parental Lines by F1 Microspore Embryogenesis

  • Hongwei Xu,
  • Yingbo Li,
  • Runhong Gao,
  • Rugen Xu,
  • Guimei Guo,
  • Ruiju Lu,
  • Nigel G. Halford,
  • Zhiwei Chen and
  • Chenghong Liu

1 August 2021

Creating varieties with high nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is crucial for sustainable agriculture development. In this study, a superior barley doubled haploid line (named DH45) with improved NUE was produced via F1 microspore embryogenesis with thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,208 Views
15 Pages

16 August 2021

Rapid climate change has increased the incidence of various pests and diseases, and these threaten global food security. In particular, BLB (bacterial leaf blight) is caused by Xoo (Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae) and its main characteristic is that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,164 Views
12 Pages

Cut flower ornamental kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) is a biennial cultivar, which completes a sexual reproductive generation in two years. Isolated microspore culture (IMC) can accelerate plant homozygosity instead of self-pollinations. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,613 Views
12 Pages

Anther Culture Efficiency in Quality Hybrid Rice: A Comparison between Hybrid Rice and Its Ratooned Plants

  • Snigdha Samir Pattnaik,
  • Byomkesh Dash,
  • Sudhansu Sekhar Bhuyan,
  • Jawahar Lal Katara,
  • C. Parameswaran,
  • Ramlakhan Verma,
  • Narayanaperumal Ramesh and
  • Sanghamitra Samantaray

2 October 2020

An immense increase in human population along with diminished lands necessitates the increase of rice production since, it serves the human population as a staple food. Though rice hybrids (RH) are showing considerable yield enhancement over inbreds...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,340 Views
14 Pages

Genetic Mapping of QTL Associated with 100-Kernel Weight Using a DH Population in Maize

  • Huawei Li,
  • Hao Li,
  • Jian Chen,
  • Xiangbo Zhang,
  • Baobao Wang,
  • Shujun Zhi,
  • Haiying Guan,
  • Weibin Song,
  • Jinsheng Lai and
  • Rixin Gao
  • + 1 author

6 June 2025

Grain yield establishment is a complex progress and the genetic basis of one of the most important yield components, 100-kernel weight, remains largely unknown. Here, we employed a double haploid (DH) population containing 477 lines which was develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,876 Views
28 Pages

New Prospects for Improving Microspore Embryogenesis Induction in Highly Recalcitrant Winter Wheat Lines

  • Ewa Dubas,
  • Monika Krzewska,
  • Ewa Surówka,
  • Przemysław Kopeć,
  • Agnieszka Springer,
  • Franciszek Janowiak,
  • Dorota Weigt,
  • Sylwia Katarzyna Mikołajczyk,
  • Anna Telk and
  • Iwona Żur

25 January 2024

Among various methods stimulating biological progress, double haploid (DH) technology, which utilizes the process of microspore embryogenesis (ME), is potentially the most effective. However, the process depends on complex interactions between many g...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,134 Views
13 Pages

12 February 2023

Flow cytometry gives a unique opportunity to analyze thousands of individual cells for multiple parameters in a course of minutes. The most commonly used flow cytometry application in plant biology is estimation of nuclear DNA content. This becomes a...

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