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T. Zhu  T. L. Rost 《Protoplasma》2000,213(1-2):99-107
Summary Plasmodesmata frequency and distribution in root cap cells ofArabidopsis thaliana root tips were characterized during four weeks after germination to understand the symplasmic control of apoptosis. Apoptotic cells in some of the root apical-meristem cells and in root cap cells were identified by the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling reaction and characterized by electron microscopy. Starting at the second week after germination, cells in the outermost layers of the root cap showed typical apoptotic features, including nuclear DNA fragmentation, chromatin condensation, cytoplasmic vacuolation, and organelle destruction. Intercellular connections, indicated by the frequency and number of plasmodesmata per cell length, were significantly reduced in the walls of outer root cap cells. This shows that cells become symplasmically isolated during the apoptosis process. In apoptotic root cap cells, the majority of nonfunctional plasmodesmata were observed to be associated with degenerated endoplasmic reticulum; this state was prior to the detection of any nuclear DNA fragmentation. Other nonfunctional plasmodesmata were sealed by heterogeneous cell wall materials. However, in immature epidermal and cortical cells in 4-week-old arrested roots the endoplasmic reticulum associated with plasmodesmata became disconnected as a result of protoplast condensation and shrinkage. No degenerated endoplasmic reticulum was observed in these cells. These observations suggest that the apoptotic processes in the root body and the root cap are different.  相似文献   

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Plant root mucilage is known to enhance soil quality by contributing towards the soil carbon pool, soil aggregation, detoxification of heavy metal ions and interactions with rhizospheric microflora. Mucilage consists of many monosaccharide units, including fucose which can be used as an indicator for plant root based polysaccharides. This is the first report of an immunological technique developed to use anti-fucose antibodies as markers for probing and localizing fucosyl residues in mucilage polysaccharide and, in turn, for localization of plant root mucilage. Fucose was complexed with bovine serum albumin to raise antibodies against fucose. A fucose-directed antibody was shown to cross-react with root cap mucilages from grasses. This antibody was used to localize root mucilage polysaccharide in maize and wheat root caps using immunogold electron microscopy. Abundant labelling could be localized on the cell wall, and in the intercellular matrix and vesicles of the peripheral root cap cells. Labelling was less intense in cells towards the centre of the root cap tissue. Control experiments confirmed that immunogold localization of fucose was specific and reliable.  相似文献   

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Root border cells (RBC) are cells surrounding the root apex. They are functionally different from the apex and are considered to play a role in the protection of the root tip from biotic and abiotic stresses. We investigated RBC viability, formation, and pectin methylesterase (PME) activity of the root caps during RBC development in cowpea (Vigna ungniculata ssp. sesquipedalis) under aeroponic culture. The results showed that the border cells formed almost synchronously with the emergence of the root tip. The number of border cells reached the maximum when roots were approximately 15 mm long. Pectin methylesterase (PME) activity of the root cap peaked at a root length of 1 mm. Root border cells separated from the root cap died within 24 h under Al3+ stress while those still attached to the root cap maintained 85% viability at 48 h after treatment. The PME activity did not differ significantly under different Al3+ treatments.  相似文献   

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Plant enzyme activities in the rhizosphere potentially are a resource for improved plant nutrition, soil fertility, bioremediation, and disease resistance. Here we report that a border cell specific β-galactosidase is secreted into the acidic extracellular environment surrounding root tips of pea, as well as bean, alfalfa, barrel medic, sorghum, and maize. No enzyme activity was detected in radish and Arabidopsis, species that do not produce viable border cells. The secreted enzyme activity was inhibited by galactose and 2-phenylethyl 1-thio-β-d-galactopyranoside (PETG) at concentrations that altered root growth without causing cell death. A tomato galactanase encoding gene was used as a probe to isolate a full length pea cDNA clone (BRDgal1) from a root cap-border cell cDNA library. Southern blot analysis using full length BRDgal1 as a probe revealed 1–2 related sequences within the pea genome. BRDgal1 mRNA expression was analysed by whole mount in situ hybridization (WISH) and found to occur in the outermost peripheral layer of the cap and in suspensions of detached border cells. No expression was detected within the body of the root cap. Repeated efforts to develop viable hairy root clones expressing BRDgal1 antisense mRNA under the control of the CaMV35S promoter, whose expression in the root cap is limited to cells at the root cap periphery only during root emergence, were unsuccessful. These data suggest that altered expression of this enzyme is deleterious to early root development. The first two authors contributed equally to the completion of this project.  相似文献   

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S. F. Baum  T. L. Rost 《Protoplasma》1996,192(3-4):178-188
Summary We investigated the development of the root cap and protoderm inArabidopsis thaliana root tips.A. Thaliana roots have closed apical organization with the peripheral root cap, columella root cap and protoderm developing from the dermatogen/calyptrogen histogen. The columella root cap arises from columella initials. The initials for the peripheral root cap and protoderm are arranged in a collar and the initiation event for these cells occurs in a sequential pattern that is coordinated with the columella initials. The resulting root cap appears as a series of interconnected spiraling cones. The protoderm, in three-dimensions, is a cylinder composed of cell files made up of packets of cells. The number of cell files within the protoderm cylinder increases as the root ages from one to two weeks. The coordinated division sequence of the dermatogen/calyptrogen and the increase in the number of protoderm cell files are both features of post-embryonic development within the primary root meristem.Abbreviations RCP root cap/protoderm - CI columella initial - PI protoderm initial  相似文献   

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Root Caps and Rhizosphere   总被引:15,自引:0,他引:15  
In this paper we discuss recent work on the physiological, molecular, and mechanical mechanisms that underlie the capacity of root caps to modulate the properties of the rhizosphere and thereby foster plant growth and development. The root cap initially defines the rhizosphere by its direction of growth, which in turn occurs in response to gradients in soil conditions and gravity. The ability of the root cap to modulate its environment is largely a result of the release of exudates and border cells, and so provides a potential method to engineer the rhizosphere. Factors affecting the release of border cells from the outer surface of the root cap, and function of these cells and their exudates in the rhizosphere, are considered in detail. Release of border cells into the rhizosphere depends on soil matric potential and mechanical impedance, in addition to a host of other environmental conditions. There is good evidence of unidentified feedback signals between border cells and the root cap meristem, and some potential mechanisms are discussed. Root border cells play a significant mechanical role in decreasing frictional resistance to root penetration, and a conceptual model for this function is discussed. Root and border cell exudates influence specific interactions between plant hosts and soil organisms, including pathogenic fungi. The area of exudates and border cell function in soil is an exciting and developing one that awaits the production of appropriate mutant and transgenic lines for further study in the soil environment.  相似文献   

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Mitosis and cell wall synthesis in the legume root cap meristem can be induced and synchronized by the nondestructive removal of border cells from the cap periphery. Newly synthesized cells can be examined microscopically as they differentiate progressively during cap development, and ultimately detach as a new population of border cells. This system was used to demonstrate that Pisum sativum L. fucosyl transferase (PsFut1) mRNA expression is strongly expressed in root meristematic tissues, and is induced >2-fold during a 5-h period when mitosis in the root cap meristem is increased. Expression of PsFut1 antisense mRNA in pea hairy roots under the control of the CaMV35S promoter, which exhibits meristem localized expression in pea root caps, resulted in a 50-60% reduction in meristem localized endogenous PsFut1 mRNA expression measured using whole mount in situ hybridization. Changes in gross levels of cell wall fucosylated xyloglucan were not detected, but altered surface localization patterns were detected using whole mount immunolocalization with CCRC-M1, an antibody that recognizes fucosylated xyloglucan. Emerging hairy roots expressing antisense PsFut1 mRNA appeared normal macroscopically but scanning electron microscopy of tissues with altered CCRC-M1 localization patterns revealed wrinkled, collapsed cell surfaces. As individual border cells separated from the cap periphery, cell death occurred in correlation with extrusion of cellular contents through breaks in the wall.  相似文献   

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Summary A strategy to obtain fractions enriched in mucilages secreted by root caps or produced by the rhizodermis of axenicallygrown maize seedlings is proposed. It involves a two-step procedure allowing the successive collection of root exudates and surface extracts from the same set of intact, sterile maize plants. Cytological controls were performed at each phase of collection. Whereas root cap mucilage is easily collected in water after one day's extraction, under conditions favouring secretory activity, rhizodermal mucilage remains tightly adherent to the root surface. It can be better extracted using neutral saline buffer assisted by gentle shaking at low temperature. Acidic saline buffer is unsuitable as it induces cell lysis and release of cell wall components.Biochemical analyses confirm that fractions enriched in root cap mucilage contain very high levels of fucose and galactose, high levels of arabinose, xylose and glucose and trace amounts of mannose. Fractions enriched in rhizodermal mucilage contain large amounts of glucose, moderate amounts of arabinose, xylose, mannose and galactose and trace levels of fucose. Isoelectric focusing and SDS-PAGE indicate that there are numerous similarities in the protein composition of materials enriched in root cap mucilages from root exudates or aqueous root surface extracts. However, specific protein bands that could be characteristic of rhizodermal mucilage are obtained using neutral saline buffer extracts. According to these biochemical data, the two-step procedure used in the present study appears to be useful for further biochemical characterization of both types of mucilages.Abbreviations BSA bovine serum albumin - BSTFA N,O-bis (trimethylsilyl)-trifluoroacetamide - DTT dithiothreitol - i. d. internal diameter - MW molecular weight - PATAg periodic acid-thiosemicarbazide-silver proteinate - PVPP polyvinylpolypyrrolidone - RE root exudates - RSE root surface extracts - TMCS trimethylchlorosilane - TMS trimethylsilyl  相似文献   

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Summary Roots with open apical organization are defined by not having specific tiers of initial cells in the root apical meristem; those with closed apical organization have specific initial tiers to which all cell files can be traced. An example of the clear organization of closed roots is the development protocol of the root cap and protoderm. The key event in differentiating these tissues is the T-division, a periclinal division of the root cap/protoderm (RCP) initial that establishes a module. Each module comprises two packets, the protoderm and peripheral root cap. Consecutive T-divisions of the same RCP initial produce up to five modules on average in a lineage of cells in white clover (Trifolium repens cv. Ladino), with all lineages around the circumference of the root dividing in waves to form one module prior to the next. On average, clover has approximately 32 axial protoderm and peripheral root cap cells in each module, and 32 RCP lineages. The occurrence of RCP T-divisions in white clover, a root with open apical organization, and the subsequent modular construction of the root cap and protoderm, provides a link between open and closed roots and suggests a common developmental feature that most roots of seed plants may share independent of their root meristem organization type. The open apical organization of the white clover root varies from roots with closed apical organization in that the RCP initials occur in staggered positions instead of connected to discrete tiers, and the peripheral root cap and columella daughter cells form additional layers of cells. White clover also forms root hairs on all protoderm cells irrespective of their position relative to the underlying cortical cells.Abbreviations RAM root apical meristem - RCP root cap protoderm - prc peripheral root cap  相似文献   

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Summary Root apical meristems are composed of two zones in which either formative or proliferative cell divisions occur. Within the formative zone, autoreproductive initial cells (a-cells) occupy distinctive locations. By means of graph-L-systems, the behavior of one such type of a-cells has been investigated, with particular reference to root caps within the developing primordia of lateral roots ofLycopersicon esculentum cultivated in vitro. Here, the a-cells constitute the protoderm initials, cells which are found also in the root cap of many angiosperm species. A set of cuboidal (i.e., six-sided) acells develops early in the ontogeny of a lateral-root primordium. Then, according to both anatomical observations and theoretical simulations obtained by the application of graph-L-systems, sequential production of descendents from each a-cell leads to the formation of a new autoreproductive cell (a), a cap columella initial (c), and two mother cells (e and f) whose respective descendents differentiate as root epidermis and cap flank cells. In this graph-L-system, there is specification of the location of sister cells with respect to the three orthogonal directions of a cuboidal. In the early stage of root cap formation, only a few rounds of these formative cell divisions by each a-cell and its four types of descendents are required to provide the basic set of cells necessary for full cap development. After the lateral root emerges from the parent root, there may be a temporary cessation of the formative divisions of the a-cells which give rise to columella initials. Columella production is then supported entirely by its own independent set of autoreproductive c-initials. At the same time, division of the autoreproductive protoderm initial cell is directed towards maintaining the cap flank and the epidermal cell files. The regulation of the types of formative division by the a-cell may be represented by means of a division counter which may be specific for a given species.Dedicated to Professor Brian E. S. Gunning on the occasion of his 65th birthday  相似文献   

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J. Vermeer  M. E. McCully 《Planta》1982,156(1):45-61
Some of the nodal roots of field-grown Zea mays L. bear a persistent soil sheath along their entire length underground except for a glistening white soil-free zone which extends approximately 25 mm behind the root cap. These roots are generally unbranched. The histology of the surface and the rhizosphere of the sheathed roots has been examined by correlated light and electron microscopy. All mature peripheral tissues including root hairs, are largely intact and apparently alive where enclosed by the soil sheath. The sheath is permeated by extracellular mucilage which is histochemically distinct from the mucilage at the epidermal surface, but similar to that produced by the root cap. Isolated cells resembling those sloughed from the sides of the root cap persist in the soil sheath along the length of these roots. Fresh whole mounts of the sheath show that these detached cells may be alive and streaming vigorously even at some distance from the root cap. Rhizosphere mucilage is associated with the isolated cells.To whom correspondence should be addressed  相似文献   

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Summary The root apex of barley,Hordeum vulgare cv. Proctor, is a structure which undergoes a number of gross morphological and ultrastructural changes from the normal patterns of development when grown under a small degree of applied mechanical constraint (2 × 104 Pa.). The root cap is generally smaller and thus does not confer to the root meristem the same degree of protection as caps growing in an uncompacted medium. Associated with this loss of peripheral cells is a reduction in the volume of mucigel in contact with the root apex.In many impeded caps, the planes of division in the calyptrogen are often neither transverse nor longitudinal. There is a reduction in both the number of amyloplasts and starch grains per amyloplast in the columella, but any statolith function of these must not be impaired since the root remains geotropically responsive. The patterns of accumulation of polysaccharide in the walls of peripheral cells as a result of Golgi activity are modified by mechanical impedance.  相似文献   

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C. L. Wenzel  T. L. Rost 《Protoplasma》2001,218(3-4):203-213
Summary The peripheral root cap and protoderm inArabidopsis thaliana are organized into modular packets of cells derived from formative T-divisions of the root cap/protoderm (RCP) initials and subsequent proliferative divisions of their daughter cells. Each module consists of protoderm and peripheral root cap packets derived from the same periclinal T-division event of an RCP initial. Anatomical analyses are used to interpret the history of extensively coordinated cell divisions producing this modular construction. Within a given layer of root cap, the columella and RCP initials divided in a centrifugal sequence from the innermost columella initials toward the RCP initials. All RCP initials in the lineages around the circumference of the root divided nearly simultaneously in waves to form one module prior to the next wave of initial divisions forming a younger module. The peripheral root cap and protoderm packets within each module completed four rounds of proliferative divisions in the axial plane to produce, on average, 16 cells per packet in the basalmost modules in axial view. Peripheral root cap and protoderm cells predominantly in the T-type (trichoblast) lineages also underwent radial divisions as they were displaced basipetally. The regularity in the cellular pattern within the modules suggests a timing mechanism controlling highly coordinated cell division in the initials and their daughter cells.Abbreviations RAM root apical meristem - RCP root cap protoderm - prc peripheral root cap  相似文献   

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Summary The cell-specific expression of two arabinogalactan protein (AGP) epitopes recognized by monoclonal antibodies JIM8 and JIM13 is reported in maize roots. Employing immunofluorescence and immunogold electron microscopy, the JIM8 antibody was shown to label exclusively protophloem sieve elements, while the JIM13 antibody labelled sieve elements very strongly and adjacent pericycle and companion cells, as well as sloughing root cap cells less strongly. Since the labelling of sieve elements with JIM8 antibody was specific and did not spread to other cell types during root development, it is concluded that this AGP epitope can serve as a specific marker of these specialized cells within the maize root. In the case of the AGP epitope recognized by JIM13 antibody, part of the immunofluorescence label was also found to be associated with cytoplasmic strands in the pericycle and sloughing root cap cells. Immunogold-labelling of sieve elements revealed the association of both AGP epitopes (JIM8 and JIM13) with cortical sieve element reticulum and plasma membranes. Labelling of sieve element reticulum was prominent at its domains of adhesion to the plasma membrane, P-type plastids, and mitochondria. Based on our subcellular studies, we propose a new function of AGP epitopes in endomembrane recognition and adhesion within the sieve elements of maize roots.Abbreviations AGP arabinogalactan protein - SER sieve element reticulum  相似文献   

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一般说来,从枝菌根(AM)真菌大多数是从植物根系根毛区(成熟区)侵入和扩展的,在显微镜下往往看不到根尖分生区和根冠表皮细胞被AM真菌侵染的特征。这就很容易给人们造成一种假象,似乎AM真菌不能侵染根尖分生区和根冠表皮细胞,即它们对AM真菌是免疫的。然而笔者多次于显微镜下看到AM真菌侵染根尖分生区和根冠表皮细胞,并形成典型的泡囊、丛枝、菌丝等结构。这一现象导致作者在温室盆栽和大田条件下研究了玫瑰红巨孢囊霉( Gigaspora rosea Nicol & Schenck)、珠状巨孢囊霉(Gigaspora margarita Becker & Hall)、根内球囊霉(Glomus omtraradices schenck & Smith、摩西球囊霉(Glomus mosseae (Nicol & Gerd.) Gerdemann & Trappe)、地表球囊霉( Glomus versiforme( Karsten)Berch)和弯丝硬囊霉( Sclerocystis sinuosa Gerdemann & Bakhi)对棉花(Gossypium hirsutum L.)、烟草(Nicotiana  tabacum L.)和白  相似文献   

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The quiescent center is viewed as an architectural template in the root apical meristem of all angiosperm and gymnosperm root tips. In roots of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh., the quiescent center inhibits differentiation of contacting initial cells and maintains the surrounding initial cells as stem cells. Here, the role of the quiescent center in the development of the maize (Zea mays L.) root cap has been further explored. Three maize root-specific genes were identified. Two of these were exclusively expressed in the root cap and one of them encoded a GDP-mannose-4,6-dehydratase. Most likely these two genes are structural, tissue-specific markers of the cap. The third gene, a putative glycine-rich cell wall protein, was expressed in the cap and in the root epidermis and, conceivably is a positional marker of the cap. Microsurgical and molecular data indicate that the quiescent center and cap initials may regulate the positional and structural expression of these genes in the cap and thereby control root cap development. Received: 22 September 1999 / Accepted: 9 November 1999  相似文献   

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The root cap is a universal feature of angiosperm, gymnosperm, and pteridophyte roots. Besides providing protection against abrasive damage to the root tip, the root cap is also involved in the simultaneous perception of a number of signals – pressure, moisture, gravity, and perhaps others – that modulate growth in the main body of the root. These signals, which originate in the external environment, are transduced by the cap and are then transported from the cap to the root. Root gravitropism is one much studied response to an external signal. In the present paper, consideration is given to the structure of the root cap and, in particular, to how the meristematic initial cells of both the central cap columella and the lateral portion of the cap which surrounds the columella are organized in relation to the production of new cells. The subsequent differentiation and development of these cells is associated with their displacement through the cap and their eventual release, as border cells, from the cap periphery. Mutations, particularly in Arabidopsis, are increasingly playing a part in defining not only the pattern of genetic activity within different cells of the cap but also in revealing how the corresponding wild-type proteins relate to the range of functions of the cap. Notable in this respect have been analyses of the early events of root gravitropism. The ability to image auxin and auxin permeases within the cap and elsewhere in the root has also extended our understanding of this growth response. Images of auxin distribution may, in addition, help extend ideas concerning the positional controls of cell division and cell differentiation within the cap. However, firm information relating to these controls is scarce, though there are intriguing suggestions of some kind of physiological link between the border cells surrounding the cap and mitotic activity in the cap meristem. Open questions concern the structure and functional interrelationships between the root and the cap which surmounts it, and also the means by which the cap transduces the environmental signals that are of critical importance for the growth of the individual roots, and collectively for the shaping of the root system. Current address (Peter W. Barlow): School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK  相似文献   

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M. Sobotik  D. Haas 《Plant biosystems》2013,147(2):484-489
Abstract

Besides being species‐specific, the inner structure of the root is influenced by the place and time of origin during the growth period. From the root tip up to the base of a particular root, the zones of cell division, cell elongation, formation of root hairs and root branching can be distinguished. The root tip that is covered by a root cap and mucilage is protected against evaporation and water contact. From the end of the lateral parts of the root cap, the cells become exposed to the surrounding environment. The cells can elongate by water uptake or can shrink by water loss. All processes of geotropic growth take place there. In this study, some differences are illustrated using Zea mays plants. Radicle and roots emerging from several nodes of the shoot as well as lateral roots are compared. The distances from the tip and from the base of the root are also very important for characterization of particular root functions. Distinctive features such as root diameter, size of the stele and of the cortex, ratio of cortex to stele, number and width of the xylem vessels, size of cells, special thickenings and stage of lignification as well as symptoms of maturation are observed.  相似文献   

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Hawes MC  Lin HJ 《Plant physiology》1990,94(4):1855-1859
In many plant species, the daily release of hundreds to thousands of healthy cells from the root cap into the soil is a normal process, whose function is unknown. We studied the separation of the cells in pea (Pisum sativum) using an aeroponic system in which separated cells were retained on the root until they were washed off for counting. We found that cell separation is a developmentally regulated, temperature-sensitive process that appears to be regulated independently of root growth. No cells were released from very young roots. When plants were grown aeroponically, cell numbers increased with increasing root length to a mean of 3400 cells per root, at which point the release of new cells ceased. The process could be reset and synchronized by washing the root in water to remove shed cells. Cell separation from the root cap was correlated with pectolytic enzyme activity in root cap tissue. Because these cells that separate from the root cap ensheath the root as it grows and thus provide a cellular interface between the root surface and the soil, we propose to call the cells “root border cells.”  相似文献   

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Summary Changes in the abundance and form of endoplasmic reticulum in the three major cell types of the maize root cap were investigated by stereological and stereometric techniques. Quantification from thin sections was by the modification and application of standard morphometric procedures. This revealed dramatic increases in both the volume fraction and surface densities of endoplasmic reticulum as the meristem cells differentiate into starch and secretory cells. A stereometric technique for analysing thick sections was used to assess changes in the types of endoplasmic reticulum as cells differentiate through the root cap. This procedure showed that the proportions of cisternal endoplasmic reticulum to tubular endoplasmic reticulum was highest in the peripheral secretory cells. Electron opacity of the endomembrane system was enhanced by selective staining with zinc iodide and osmium tetroxide (ZIO).  相似文献   

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